[WikiEN-l] Don't remove a WP:OFFICE tag put there by Danny

[Neil Harris]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> On 3/11/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>   
>> And honestly, you should know me well enough by now.  No amount of
>> political, financial, or legal leverage in the entire universe would
>> persuade me to do the wrong thing by our mission.  We have, as a
>> community, principles and integrity.  This is what we are all about.
>>     
>
> You've changed a lot from the early days.  What started out as a
> laissez faire "let the community decide for itself" attitude has grown
> more and more despotic over time.
>
> Anthony
>
>   
Whoa. Despotic, you say?

Given the history of Wikipedia, Jimbo's been the most hands-off project 
leader in the history of the Internet. Indeed, the community has been 
left to decide almost everything for itself; and this has proved, in 
almost all cases, to be the right thing to do.

Perhaps some of the current problems, such as the userbox nonsense and 
general culture wars, are partly due to this -- without continual 
intervention from above, many people may be unaware, or have forgotten, 
that the Wikimedia Foundation and its corporate structure even exists 
(and, in some cases, may also have forgotten about the whole "Wikipedia 
is an encyclopedia" mission thing).

Somebody's got to deal with these problems when they happen. Who would 
you prefer?

-- Neil