<DIV><B><I>Jimmy Wales <jwales@bomis.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%">There has been no policy change at all. Not unilateral, not by<BR>consensus. Someone writing "please" on a web page does not establish<BR>policy. It doesn't even _purport falsely_ to establish policy.<BR><BR>If someone had written, out of the blue: "You are required to post a<BR>notice" -- yeah, that would be wrong. But writing "Please post a<BR>notice" does not imply policy, and *note well*, you can edit that page<BR>just as well as anyone else.<BR><BR>--Jimbo<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<P>Jimbo, you haven't been following the history properly. All of a sudden, on August 17th, mav wrote this on my Talk page:</P>
<P>"When you list a page on <A class=internal title="Votes for deletion" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_deletion">Votes for deletion</A> you <EM>must</EM> say "Listed on <A class=internal title="Votes for deletion" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_deletion">Votes for deletion</A>" on the page you are listing. Otherwise the page will not get deleted.--<A class=internal title=User:Maveric149 href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maveric149">mav</A> 00:59, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC) "</P>
<P>Note the emphasis on "must". This was the first I had heard of it. It was never discussed on the mailing list, it doesn't seem to have had any discussion anywhere. It just suddenly appeared. And when I questioned it, I was told "It's policy", and if I didn't toe the line, I could lump it.</P>
<P>This is not "please", this is an order. I was ordered to do as Mav said, based on what someone without comment had put on the Votes for Deletion and Deletion policy pages. And I had no input into the process.</P>
<P>RickK</P>
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