On 11/13/05, Snowspinner Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Do we really need more committees and projects? Couldn't we get by with just a "mentorship" page? This sudden drive to factionalize, make committees, and make small and obscure rules pages ([[Wikipedia:Ivies]] being the most flagrant recent example) is just ridiculous.
I concur entirely. Elections for directors, advisory committees, Wikiproject boards -- the elections recently have been endless. I feel that much of the momentum of improving Wikipedia has recently been lost by various users' megalomania and committee-mania. If there was advice given to users about how to do certain things (such as fighting vandalism) and perhaps a list of users to whom questions could be directed, this would save much time and might well also get people down to the real business of writing an encyclopaedia [1].
Sam
[1] I have never written an FA from start to finish.