2008/10/18 David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>om>:
Changing a previously widely accepted standard should
take much wider
discussion than this has received, and over a longer period of time.
It got discussed over months and by rather a wide selection of people
(they kept starting to delink dates and people kept noticing).
It's very easy at Wikipedia for a few people to
move in fast and get
something changed; the test is whether it hold up under subsequent
scrutiny.
It has repeatedly.
And even actual consent ahead of time may change
quite
rapidly once people truly see the implications on a large scale in the
encyclopedia.
We already seen it on a fair sized scale. That you didn't notice
doesn't mean it hasn't been happening.
--
geni