On 6/20/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
[snip] It's difficult to tell and Wales isn't particularly interested in doing honest critical analyses of the effects of his policies.
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This is a complicated matter and neither the NYT, nor Jimmy, nor BoingBoing is helping matters by oversimplifying the debate.
Well, to be fair to Jimmy, it really isn't _his_ policy. By framing the debate with this in mind, I think you too are oversimplifying. ;-) It was a policy decided by community consensus.
But I would agree with you on some points. As someone who doesn't really care for WP:SEMI, I think it does place some restrictions on *how* people can edit, rather than *who*.
Just keep in mind that basically every policy is generated by the community, and basically every policy places a limit on what we should do. But I think it can be argued that these fall under the "restrictions to make us freer" heading. --LV