On 14/02/2009, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
For what it's worth on the wider question - I've been jumping on civility problems that surface on ANI for the last few days - they're all responding to calm down warnings (and one block), and I haven't gotten any nasty pushback or anything. Every little bit helps.
Another issue that admins are quite prone to (along with many seasoned editors) is that they tend to get *really* overprotective of articles.
They tend to get this, 'we have written this *wonderful* article, and we have established that nobody can edit it without persuading the Committee Who Likes To Say No to say yes at talk pages X and then we'll consult different committees at Y, Z and maybe A, B as well if you get that far, otherwise we'll revert everything you do because it isn't Our Consensus And You Haven't Discussed It(tm)* and then report you on ANI for being Disruptive (tm)'.
I mean We Really Like This Article (tm), why are you editing it, don't you like this article?
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
n.b. *Consensus (tm) means we simpy vote and you simply lose; what's that you say? There's a policy about consensus? What's a policy? We outnumber you.
;-)