On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:12:18 -0700, you wrote:
My objection in short: "Fuck process" is, here and now, more of a problem for Wikipedia than any of the individual wrongs Tony has righted using that justification, of late. Playing well with others is more important now.
Up to a point, I'd say. As far as I can tell Tony's beef with "process wonks" is that the slavish following of rules has come to replace building a great encyclopaedia as the primary goal. He has no patience with people who look first at the rules and only second at whether a given thing is good for the encyclopaedia or not. The decision hierarchy at present for many people seems to be community, guideline, policy, encyclopaedia - it should be the other way round.
Guy (JzG)