On 2/3/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it (and there's a good chance I got this all wrong, if I did, please forgive me) this whole thing started with some discussion of [[Gazeebow Unit]] at WP:ANI, and Tony said "This issue has been discussed on wikien-I". Some people then said (I'm paraphrasing here) "Well, we weren't a part of that discussion, could we please bring it up in a forum which everyone is happy with". The response (again, paraphrasing) "Hey, if you don't want to subscribe that's your problem", and that got the snowball rolling.
Not really. The thing had already been discussed on WP:DRV. In both places there was a lot of positive response, and in any case this wasn't exactly a revolutionary move or a policy change. It was just a personal decision.
But it's nice to get stuff known and discussed widely, rather than just in one place--that is a very big wiki and many people don't seem to have heard of deletion review.
So wikien-l is a good place to announce it, too.