On 0, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net scribbled:
Blu Aardvark wrote:
jayjg wrote:
That page was an essay. It wasn't even a guideline, and certainly not policy.
It may not have been explicit policy, but it was linked to from [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]] for some time, and if that doesn't indicate a reasonable consensus, I don't know what does.
So who ever pays a lot of attention to [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]], or, for that matter, anything on the Mediawiki namespace? How can a consensus be viewed as reliable when it appears to have developed on an obscure corner that no-one ever visits?
Ec
A good question. When was the last time most of the people on this list (or core editors period) actually saw the blocktext? I think the last time I saw it was a few months ago, and that was an accident of configuration.
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