On 6/5/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
On Jun 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
That is the problem in a nutshell. Their signatures on a discussion page are more important than the aims of improving the readability and ease of editing on the discussion page. Their lack of perspective is thus a problem for Wikipedia.
Certainly. But you pissing them off *does not solve the problem.* That is the problem with your approach, in a nutshell. As you said, the lack of readability of the discussion page is not the problem - certain editors "lack of perspective" is the problem. You pissing off those editors is not going to change their "lack of perspective".
Well obviously I don't know I'm going to piss someone off until I do. However refactoring does solve a real problem. Of course they'll be pissed off; if they didn't think that their signatures were more important than the discussion, they wouldn't have unnecessarily cluttered the discussion page. While it doesn't solve their problem, it does solve *wikipedia's* problem. Wikipedians should take reasonable steps to avoid treading on toes, but should not go out of their way to bow to unreasonable demands.