geni wrote:
On 3/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, I don't know; first there were the Inclusionists, Deletionists
Pro-content and Pro-encylopedists
and Mergists; then there were the "joke parties" like the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD; then the ultra-conservative nuts like the Association of Moral Wikipedians, Wikipedians for Decency, and finally the Catholic Alliance of Wikipedia...
You will note these parties are for the most part single issue and there is nothing to stop you joining more than one of them.
...and now, while the people who still take the ADW and AIW seriously are largely confined to AFD/DRV (where they've become anally retentive process fetishests), two new powers have emerged: the Pro- and Anti- Userboxes camps.
Two much simplifaction. The process fetishests and anti-process groups are also around and involved in the conflict alough pinning them down to ether side can be tricky (probably favouring the pro userpage freedom group at the monement since they have mostly stayed within policy (admitedly with some interesting interpritations) unlike the template namespace presivation group
So, like a parliament, there are party politics, including single-issue parties, floor-crossers, and a few independants.