On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:
On 10/9/08, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, did we finally do away with an innocuous innovation that actually measurably and demonstrably increased the number of free images we have in favor of short-term concerns about how "pretty" articles look?
Some day I hope we can finally develop policies that are actually a complete impediment to the development of a free content resource instead of these minor speedbumps we usually muster.
Well, it's one thing to say "don't over-use 'em" but it soon becomes a race to see who can first run a thinly disguised bot to remove them all, just like the fucking date links.
Whereas, frankly, what would be more appropriate would be running a bot on Category:Living people to add them where they don't exist.
I strongly concur.
Wikipedia is a work in progress, and it's pretty much impossible to hide that. So I think it's okay to have some dust on the floor as the result of actions which hasten our long term progress.