It was trying to deal with editors like 172 which made it that way. Freedom to do whatever he wanted made it difficult to edit for many other editors and resulted in biased articles in important areas.
Fred
From: Matt Brown morven@gmail.com Reply-To: Matt Brown morven@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:39:27 -0800 To: geni geniice@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rules, expertise, and encyclopedic standards
I do think 172 has a point about the dangers of becoming a rules-bound, process-bound culture. The complexity of the Wikipedia process has grown incredibly in the last year or so.
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