On 11/01/2008, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Volunteers don't appreciate being dictated to, especially not after they've been told that they're supposed to have a say in how things operate.
This is the crux of the issue.
I don't care about rollback one way or the other, really. What I do care about is a flagrant disregard for process -- and as Ken Arromdee implied: this change, unilaterally implemented by a developer without community consensus may not be harmful to the encyclopaedia, but the next one might be. Please let's not get ourselves into a situation where the devs can do what they want and the community is powerless.