Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the notice boards on Commons, or who is
subscribed to this mailing list, will be aware of a huge, wide-ranging and unfocused set
of disputes and ill-natured arguments that have been raging for several months. The
disputes are becoming more and more intemperate, and the positions of some editors more
and more entrenched. While a few contributors have tried hard to pull the community back
to constructive discussion and have made sensible suggestions, their comments have been
drowned out in the noise.
We need to stop now and focus not on stating a re-stating positions, but on making
definite and constructive proposals for ways in which these issues can be fixed. The
discussion on this list has been non-productive for some time, and I suggest that editors
should drop discussion there and should focus attention on the discussion on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Di…
Michael.