On 3/21/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
The change was made before a sufficient process had taken place to make the change, with the result that many good editors were unaware that such a fundamental change was about to take place.
Jimbo, this simply isn't true. First, there was *no* fundamental change, just a merge of three untidy pages. Anyone who says there was a change needs to read NOR and V, then read ATT, and explain what the fundamental difference is.
As for the process, the discussion and editing lasted four or five months, and involved hundreds of editors. It was discussed all over Wikipedia, and the way we knew it was okay to make the merge live is that people *started to use* WP:ATT of their own accord, refer to it to support their edits, link to it, quote it. It was evolution, not revolution, which is the best way to form policy, exactly the same way BLP developed.
Sarah