On 6/6/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Exactly. Tony has no 'authority' nor the
right to single handedly take
away
Featured Article status, nor to grant it.
Why not? It's a wiki. We give people the 'authority' to single handedly
call articles "stubs", to single handedly claim that an article needs
cleanup, and to single handedly remove those distinctions.
My point was that clicking the edit button to take it away isn't the same as
taking it away. I can go make a random sock account, edit some old FA from
2004, and take away the pretty Gold Star, and note that fact both here and
on the Talk page. That doesn't make it not an FA. :) It just means I flung
my mouse about spastically, hoping my decision would be accepted.
Some people thought it was important to have a single person choosing which
articles are featured on the front page. Those of us
who disagreed and
thought that it should instead be chosen by a collaborative process were
outvoted, and conceded. Mark was named "featured article dictator", then
it
was changed to "featured article director", and proceeded to extend his
powers to what they are now. No one really challenged him, because those
of
us who wanted the process to be community pretty much stopped
participating
altogether in the whole featured article mess.
I never messed around much with FA during my time. Who on earth made that
dumb decision to give him (or anyone) alone such power? And why on Earth
hasn't it be undone in the name of common sense?
Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com