Jossi Fresco wrote:
In the future, we would be quite happy when look back to this day. I am certain we will say that this was all a "good thing" for the project.
With a lot of recent issues, I've been questioning the maturity of the project. We're suffering some odd growing pains, and I think that this is one of the results of our inconsistencies and our immaturity as a project overall. To hear the guy who's responsible for keeping WP:IAR in business not only press for a better process for policymaking, but suggest a poll, is somewhat mindblowing to me.
I mean, maybe it's time to be honest with ourselves? Dare I say that "consensus" as we know it may not be the best route for a lot of these decisions? That perhaps "Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy" needs to be "Wikipedia sometimes has to be a bureaucracy, even if it wishes it didn't have to be?"
We have a hard enough time keeping up with reality as is - we're getting poor press in the webcomic community AGAIN because of the DRV about the comics book edited by Ted Rall today, we still can't bring ourselves to use the same sources ABC does, etc etc - is this a symptom of that?
I don't know. But it's something we might have to seriously look at and stop sweeping under the proverbial rug.
-Jeff