On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
rcasm> That's a blog, so it doesn't count.
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While we've discussed this, there are some new points, and I think the canvassing problem is one of the worst. It ends up meaning that the people who are affected by a change never get to participate in the decision, because it's impossible to inform them witbhout "canvassing" or "meatpuppets".
It's also a newbie problem. Some of the accounts in question are improving, on a steep learning curve. Others never came back or show little activity or interest in the rest of Wikipedia (normal behaviour for most new accounta). Such incidents also show the worst of how Wikipedia can treat newcomers.
Carcharoth