On Nov 19, 2007 5:39 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
Ultimately, disagreements among sufficiently knowledgeable people come about due to lack of shared values. If you don't agree with the core values of the wikipedia, why are you here?
Lack of agreement that comes down to core values is one of the ways true trolls self-identify.
This issue, however, is regarding less core values.
The rest of the Internet has agreed on spoiler tags on stuff. Wikipedia, of course, does not need to do it the way everyone else does. Wikipedia is not at all like most of the rest of the Web in terms of our information goals.
However, the overwhelming prevalence of doing it that way "out there" argues that those of you who want to remove the tags here at least need to extend good faith more consistently than you sometimes have, and perhaps should work harder to try and put together a policy to put through consensus review rather than trying to sneak it in the back door.
Your apparent assumption of bad faith regarding Ken in the email I'm responding to here is rather disturbing.