[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions, bogus guidelines

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Jan 22 22:17:25 UTC 2006


geni wrote:

>On 1/22/06, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>  
>
>>Unless you were writing hastily without thinking, what you appear to be
>>saying here is that you regard yourself as a problem.
>>
>>- d.
>>    
>>
>There are 1000s of editors on wikipedia. The odds of me liking and
>getting on with all of them are pretty much zero. However process (and
>a reasonably common goal) means that I don't have to like someone to
>work with them. Once we move outside process personal opinion about a
>person matters a lot. Do you trust the person? Do you really honestly
>deep down belive they are acting in good faith?
>
Speaking as someone who most of the time disagrees with geni, it's also 
important to express agreement when it does happen as with the above 
statement. 

Similarly the fact that I more often agree with David does not prevent 
me from getting into a polarized debate with him on an other issue.

Ec




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