[WikiEN-l] WP:EPISODE

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Dec 29 11:19:29 UTC 2007


Ned Scott wrote:
> It's really not fair to say that such users are unable to work  
> together. TTN, everyone, and myself, have continued to follow advice  
> about making more time for discussion and trying to help users  
> understand why these articles are being removed, rather than just  
> forcing the issue. This is one reason I didn't think the case needed  
> to be accepted. The real reason this was an arbcom case was because of  
> the very large amount of articles that were being redirected, and that  
> resulting in a lot of different people getting mad. That's very  
> different than trying different means of resolving the dispute. 
You make an error that is common among politicians.  It's a belief that 
more people would find a position acceptable if only you could explain 
it better.  This seems to ignore the possibility that people are 
rejecting the position because they feel it's wrong.

Ec




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