When last I checked, voting in general was against the rules. Wikipedia is not a democracy, and never has been - it has always been run based on the endpoints of reasoned discussions of the issues among editors who are committed to Wikipedia's core issues. The problem is that these discussions are being increasingly railroaded by loud blocs of people who have realized that a poll takes less time, and that when people assume good faith it's easy to get away with a lot of shouting without being shut down, such that when anybody does finally decide to pull the plug there's an uproar. I looked at Kelly's RfC today, and was floored to see it describing the percentage vote for censure so far. First of all, RfCs are not votes, second of all, they are not votes for some motion of censure, third of all, what the fuck?
This is a systemic failure of the system. The first step in fixing it is to very explicitly clarify how we work. The second step is to expend the effort to actually work that way.
-Phil
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 1/3/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
- Bloc voting. Is this against the rules?
Yes, of course it is. Good grief! _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l