On 0, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com scribbled:
On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Naturally, a DRV is underway. I'm a bit surprised by how strongly it's swinging "endorse" right now, this outcome strikes me as really bizarre. Is this more BLP mania in action? Why can't we have even a stub biography of someone who's featured significantly in four other articles? Shouldn't BLP apply just the same no matter where the material winds up?
I hate to start complaint threads like this one, but this really caught me by surprise and I'm wondering if I'm really so far out of touch that this should be making sense to me.
We need to get rid of that article. We've subjected Brandt to hundreds of thousands of words of debate, 14 AfDs, I don't know how many DRVs -- wall-to-wall bickering and childishness for 18 sorry months. We've allowed his article to be edited by any anonymous teenager who turns up with a grudge, and the decision to keep the wretched thing has been made 13 times by people who normally edit Star Trek. We've made complete fools of ourselves as a project.
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Nice way to smear anyone who has ever supported keeping the article. Way to go there.
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