Charles,

There may well be fallacies. Perhaps you could point out one or two of them. There is also evasion of responsibility, and delaying of what should have been done already by an ethical and competent organisation, and as usual, a lot of commenting, queries and demands from people who do not know the background. We are accustomed to this.

Cheers,

Peter

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On 30 July 2020 at 11:22 "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

בתאריך יום ה׳, 30 ביולי 2020 ב-13:08 מאת Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net>:

Amir,

“some people are now thinking of undeploying the {{short description}} feature”

Who? Where is this being discussed? I am not sure what you mean by “undeploying the feature”

Agree that it was a badly handled problem and massive time-sink, but would prefer that the baby is not thrown out with the bathwater.

Cheers,

Peter

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF) now, and a lot of different and contradicting opinions are thrown around there.

Clearly, if there is a definite demand for scraps of human-readable text attached to things, some people will spend time arguing that the consumer is always wrong in these situations. Just as, if you point out that it provides another way to search, they will argue that people don't, can't or shouldn't search in such ways.

I feel there are fallacies lurking here, or anti-patterns, and would be happy to have names for them.

Charles

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