On 6/4/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:54:11 -0700, you wrote:
One RFC? Sure. One particularly upset
complaintant? Sure.
Your kickback from the community is far, far past that.
The community? Whoa! Tony pisses me off, too, but I can see when he
has a point - which is pretty much always. Take a deep breath and ask
what we are here for. Social networking? Glory? Ego? Or to build
an encyclopaedia? In each of the numerous cases where Tony has wound
me up, it has been because he unilaterally did something which was
good for the encyclopaedia, and "fuck process". I think that may even
be a direct quote from him.
A lot of the people who kick back against Tony via these RfCs are
problem editors, just like a lot of the whining that goes on here and
at Wikipedia Review is from frustrated POV warriors.
Which of those categories do I fall into, praytell? 8-)
Even discounting a lot of the pile-on me-too complaints against Tony from
problem editors, there remain significant numbers of people who aren't and
object to some of the stuff he's done.
My objection in short: "Fuck process" is, here and now, more of a problem
for Wikipedia than any of the individual wrongs Tony has righted using that
justification, of late. Playing well with others is more important now.
--
-george william herbert
gherbert(a)retro.com / george.herbert(a)gmail.com