David Gerard wrote:
On 03/06/07, James Farrar
<james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/06/07, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The telling thing in the deletion review is the
deleting admin's
comment that "I don't particularly care if the abuse of power by
certain admins angers some people".
Sigh.
I was actually interested in the less inbred view, i.e. looking at
what normal people think on this sort of thing.
All you did was post a raw URL, with a subject header that was merely
descriptive of its contents. How was James to know what you were
actually interested in?
I think we've moving from having inaccuracy and vandalism as our major
PR problems to having notability and deletion as our PR problem instead.
In a sense it's a sign of progress; people are no longer as cheesed off
about how "bad" Wikipedia is, they're upset about whether it covers them
or not. Shows we're now seen as an "institution". But still, it's
something that should be addressed.