On 1/13/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I can't comment on Esperanza because I have not been following that debate.
I do think it's wrong to extrapolate the experiences regarding Alternative medicine into all sorts of unrealated projects. In the present context all we would be asking them to do is to deal with alternative medicine topics. There may be contentious issues there, but I think it's reasonable to expect that both sides will remain more or less on topic.
Both sides? You appear to have missed the point of that project back in the day
The potential for every WikiProject to have it's own internal politics is certainly there, but why is that so bad? Is it really any better to throw these issues into a communal sewage treatment plant than a local septic tank? It might be easier to find a lost diamond ring in the latter.
Establishing an effective monoply is always bad. At the moment a wikiproject knows that if they are less than ideal people will just go around them. Give them power that outsiders have no easy way to disspute and the various problems wikiprojects have become a lot more serious.