On 9/4/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/09/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/4/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is also a BIG stick to use on Byzantine overengineered processes and policy. Excessive process is actively newbie-hostile.
So is excessive randomness. Policy protects new users.
Oh, absolutely. Process is important. But too much is stifling and dangerous.
depends how it is structured. I don't think new users are going to be to worried about [[Wikipedia:Bots]] and the ones we wan't don't normaly have a problem with no legal threats or [[Wikipedia:Undeletion policy]] (since when did we have an undeletion policy I have enough trouble trying to remeber our deletion policy).
Stupidity, I presume. (Rather than malice. See the assumption of good faith!)
I was woundering if it was a slightly odd case of use common names.