[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[The Cunctator]

At the same time,

*Always leave something undone.
**Give the author a chance.*
*Build the web.*
*Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.*

and

*If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing,
rather than deletion.*

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Cool Hand Luke <
failure.to.communicate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roger Davies has posted an excellent comment on the "civil disobedience"
> aspect of these events here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&diff=prev&oldid=339367826
>
> I've seen much talk today of doing the right things the right way and doing
> the right things the wrong way. I suppose the lesson of history is that
> determining which is which is usually possible only with the advantage of
> considerable hindsight. Think of some examples: the barons at Runnymede,
> the
> Roundheads, George Washington et al, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the sailors on
> the Potemkin; the suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther
> King, Nelson Mandela.... The core of civil disobedience is the principle
> that people should do the right things the wrong way when trying to do them
> the right way failed or is not possible. And that's pretty close to the
> underlying principle of WP:IAR.  *Roger Davies* *talk* 16:39, 22 January
> 2010 (UTC)
>
> This was only the beginning; it was precipitated by the pressure of
> repeated
> failed attempts to reach elusive consensus on the matter.  This is not
> anarchy, but a brief transition point.  The RFC shows the way forward.
> MZMcBride's summary deletion proposal does not have consensus and will not
> reign.  The  processes proposed by Jehochman and David Gerard, on the other
> hand, are doing very well.  Under these proposals, there will be a review
> period for unsourced BLPs, but any tagged biography that does not become
> sourced must be scrapped.
>
> Cool Hand Luke
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