"Cool Cat" wrote
The wiki way is consensus. Being bold is fine. Anyone can boldly suggests a new categorization scheme.
There needs to be a way to regulate bold decisions that affects tens to hundreds of articles. If you have a better suggestion feel free to suggest it.
There doesn't 'need to be' that. I have gone into mathematics categories with a couple of hundred articles and subdivided them on the fly. This has improved the encyclopedia, and if I had had to await some sort of approval (from whom?) I would not have bothered.
The wiki way is certainly not bound by pre-arranged consensus; much more characteristic of good Wikipedians is how they react to those who find fault with what they do (namely, to take it well).
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You should be seeking consensus. Waiting a day or week to determine the best way to categorize will save you and everyone else significant amount of time. Are you 100% certain that the mathematics categories are the most effective to navigate the articles?
Categorization should not be rushed. Approval is not the case. See how stub template proposals are handled at wikiproject:stubs
- Cool Cat
On 2/13/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Cool Cat" wrote
The wiki way is consensus. Being bold is fine. Anyone can boldly
suggests a
new categorization scheme.
There needs to be a way to regulate bold decisions that affects tens to hundreds of articles. If you have a better suggestion feel free to
suggest
it.
There doesn't 'need to be' that. I have gone into mathematics categories with a couple of hundred articles and subdivided them on the fly. This has improved the encyclopedia, and if I had had to await some sort of approval (from whom?) I would not have bothered.
The wiki way is certainly not bound by pre-arranged consensus; much more characteristic of good Wikipedians is how they react to those who find fault with what they do (namely, to take it well).
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On 2/13/07, Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
You should be seeking consensus. Waiting a day or week to determine the best way to categorize will save you and everyone else significant amount of time. Are you 100% certain that the mathematics categories are the most effective to navigate the articles?
Categorization should not be rushed. Approval is not the case. See how stub template proposals are handled at wikiproject:stubs
Discussion and consensus is not the same thing as bureaucracy and red tape. It's perfectly possible -- preferable, even! -- to come to a consensus decision on how something (e.g. categories) should be structured without the need to go through umpteen formal proposals, nominations, processes, listings, reviews, and so forth.
Kirill
Yes. Thats the idea here. BEFORE creation some sort of process. We lack that completely.
Lets brainstorm the issue please and not oppse it since the current system is clearly failing.
- Cool Cat
On 2/13/07, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/13/07, Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
You should be seeking consensus. Waiting a day or week to determine the
best
way to categorize will save you and everyone else significant amount of time. Are you 100% certain that the mathematics categories are the most effective to navigate the articles?
Categorization should not be rushed. Approval is not the case. See how
stub
template proposals are handled at wikiproject:stubs
Discussion and consensus is not the same thing as bureaucracy and red tape. It's perfectly possible -- preferable, even! -- to come to a consensus decision on how something (e.g. categories) should be structured without the need to go through umpteen formal proposals, nominations, processes, listings, reviews, and so forth.
Kirill
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