Here's a tip: When two dozen people complain about your unilateral decisions to delete things or what have you, you should consider re-opening it up to discussion, rather than insisting on your correctness.
Blundering into a controversy is one thing. Exacerbating it by refusing the recognize that there are other, valid takes on it, is another thing. You could head these things off way before they became RFCs if you weren't so damned stubborn, arrogant, and uncompromising, in my frank opinion.
Howabout this as a general rule: if more than two reasonable admins with good track records find your unilateral action to be a bad idea, why not cede to the process? None of these things (userboxes, signatures) are so hazardous that they will endanger the encyclopedia if normal process is allowed to be run thorugh. Cutting people off in a show of questionable judgment only builds antagonism, not good will.
But I'm sure you already know my opinions on these things, and will disregard them as usual.
FF
On 6/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Well obviously I don't know I'm going to piss someone off until I do.
Oh, please. This stretches credulity. Surely you've noticed the pattern by now.
Absolutely not. I discern no predictable pattern to which things will piss people off. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l