[WikiEN-l] Brandt, bios, and other thoughts

[the wub]

On 20/04/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some people may consider it to be a victory on our part to have
> > retained the article in the face of such determined opposition; if it
> > is, it's merely a Pyrrhic one.
> >
> > So why, then, have we dug in our heels so thoroughly on this?  Why
> > can't we just get rid of the article already and all go back to doing
> > something rather more useful than this endless fighting?
> >
>
> Absolutely.  The truly dismaying effect of the Brandt affair is not
> that Brandt could ever do us any harm.  He cannot.  He's neither rich
> nor powerful enough.  It's what we have done to ourselves as a
> community during the course of the affair.
>
> Deleting the article may not placate Brandt, but who cares?  It would
> be an end to this corrosive infighting.

We don't delete articles solely because they cause controversy within
the community, just as Jimbo has shown we shouldn't shy away from
unblocking someone solely because it would cause controversy within
the community.

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