On 14/02/2009, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For what it's worth on the wider question -
I've been jumping on civility
problems that surface on ANI for the last few days - they're all responding
to calm down warnings (and one block), and I haven't gotten any nasty
pushback or anything. Every little bit helps.
Another issue that admins are quite prone to (along with many seasoned
editors) is that they tend to get *really* overprotective of articles.
They tend to get this, 'we have written this *wonderful* article, and
we have established that nobody can edit it without persuading the
Committee Who Likes To Say No to say yes at talk pages X and then
we'll consult different committees at Y, Z and maybe A, B as well if
you get that far, otherwise we'll revert everything you do because it
isn't Our Consensus And You Haven't Discussed It(tm)* and then report
you on ANI for being Disruptive (tm)'.
I mean We Really Like This Article (tm), why are you editing it, don't
you like this article?
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
n.b. *Consensus (tm) means we simpy vote and you simply lose; what's
that you say? There's a policy about consensus? What's a policy? We
outnumber you.
;-)
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.