On 4/20/07, Cascadia cascadia@privatenoc.com wrote:
Tony, again... you keep calling discussion, although a bit heated, "trolling".
I think that this kind of rabble-rousing injected into a discussion is precisely that, and I think it's reasonable to assume that the people or person who chose to use anonymous accounts to do that had the intention of inflaming opinion against Jimbo Wales.
I appologize if I sound obtuse or overly confused... but when does "official Policy on the English Wikipedia" not be Wikipedia policy??
I haven't said that "official policy on the English Wikipedia" isn't Wikipedia policy. If anything, I've asserted the reverse. Written policy tends to lag behind the curve. There are several arbitration committee cases in which this principle has featured. Relying on written policy as if it asserted "rights" and the like is usually described as "wiki-lawyering", and is strongly discouraged.