on 8/18/03 7:41 AM, Nicholas Knight at nknight@runawaynet.com wrote:
On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:30, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Replace "Alpha Centauri" with "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion" and "demolition beams" with "deletion." The last thing we need is for our Admins to be perceived as Vogons who are "not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous."
This latest effort at increasing the amount of work one has to do to get anything useful done is just helping that perception along. Every time I turn around there's another largely political detail I have to be aware of, and it's doing anything but encourage me to contribute to Wikipedia.
I've had to put up with pointless procedures on volunteer projects before. I'm not about to do it again.
But its not pointless, careless and arbitrary deletions can lead to serious trouble with contributors who may very well "vote with their feet"
Fred Bauder