John Tex wrote:
On 5/3/06, wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org
From: Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cyde should not have violated Deletion policy (Johntex) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 4459925E.90903@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I didn't "close" the debate so much as I "canceled" it. My "vote", as you mention, was to cancel it ... and then a minute after that I realized I could go through with what I said should be done.
Unfortunately, this misses the point. Whether you called it a "closure" or "cancellation" or a "stoppage" or whatever. You halted the process that a lot of people were contributing to.
The process was /wrong/.
They had a right to be heard.
Wikipedia is NOT a democracy; the First Ammendment of the Constitution of the United States only guarantees "free speech" against intervention by Congress. Wikipedia is a private website where you have exactly TWO rights:
* The right to leave * The right to fork
This wastes a lot of time and looks like bad behavior for an admin to kill an AfD early, especially one he has been involved in.
It looks a hell of a lot like using common sense.