On 10/26/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
We're going to end up with a far-from-ideal committee if we have unrestricted elections, too, because the voting blocks that have already formed in Wikipedia will throw weight around to attempt to manipulate the result.
Prove it. I haven't seen any of these voteing blocks. Certianly non of the candidates appear to be running on either thier deletionist or inclusionist credentials (and due to the way the voteing is done they would be stupid to do so)
Jimbo's proposal basically ensures that we're not asked to waste our time voting down clearly inappropriate candidates and avoids the risk of an inappropriate candidate with substantial influence from being elected despite our best efforts.
Kelly
You've seen the list of candidates so far. Which inappropriate ones do you think have a chance? Remeber due to the voteing system we use you can vote for every good candidate. In fact the voteing system tends towards selecting the least least popular candidates makeing unsitible candiates unlikely to win.
-- geni