On 3/7/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You know, policy and process used to be relaxed
because Wikipedia was a
wholly new thing and no one had any idea how to make it work yet. We could
only figure out what works through experience. But as time passed, and as
experience repeated itself, we learned from it and the patterns inherent in
it. There was quite a lot of naive innocence in the old days, but it
couldn't last forever. What was once an amorphous mass is slowly taking
shape and solidifying. As time passes it will inevitably solidify further.
Corrections and adaptations will be made in an endless process, as it is
with all evolving things, whether they are animals or city-states.
Your use of such phrases as "no one had any idea",
"naive","amorphous"
clearly indicates your bias.