Anthere wrote:
The big return of recipees. . . . And I think the network should exist. Our goal is to GIVE access to information to readers. Not only to CREATE information. We must create the information, organise it, categorize it, link it, and make it accessible. Each time we delete information links from one project to another, we may not hurt the content itself, but we reduce the networkability (does that word exist ? If not, here it is) : we limit access to information. We hid it.
When information exists, but can not be found easily by readers, then we have failed. Imho. SweetLittleFluffyThing 23:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I absolutely agree with you on this, as I have on previous occasions when this issue has come up. I just find this kind of situation completely depressing. It manifests itself in the recipes this time, but it's really about the broader issue that some editors have a narrow idea about what is important. Whatever falls outside of their definition of importance is trash. In their logical and mechanistic world they are blind to what others find important.
I don't think that this can be solved by reasoning with them, because in doing so we need to rely on premises that fall beyond thei view of the world. To their credit. I believe that they are acting in what they consider to be to the benefit of Wikipedia. I suppose that makes dealing with them so much tougher. What it takes is for someone with authority to tell them bluntly, "You are not respecting the honest efforts of others. You are not considering the human values that are just as important to success, as the intellectual ones."
There is a paradox in democratic institutions. One side, usually the "left" has a remarkable gift for analysis and for developing well-reasoned and ethical policies, but they are so caught up in the world of ideas that like the communards of 1871 they forget that they have to decide and do something about it. Their opponents on the "right" are as remarkable for their ability to organize and get things done; they simply lose track of what they are trying to accomplish and why.
So for as much as I believe that democratic principles should prevail, I still see that there are times when what is needed is leadership.
Meanwhile, in case the redirect article is deleted, I will restore it as it was agreed last spring.
Good!