On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Matthew Britton wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
- I do not believe that we should ever sacrifice friendliness "for the
greater good".
You haven't edited the English Wikipedia recently, have you?
If we let ourselves be guided by the excesses of some English Wikipedians, and use that or a reaction to that as a foundation for our values we are deeper in the doo-doo than I ever would have imagined.
You had me till "excesses of some". While I can not pretend to speak for anyone but myself, I cannot deny that emphasizing various super- ordinate goals (wisely or otherwise; I genuinely will not say which) has led to a *systemic* culture of "balancing" the value of contributions and the behaviour of the contributors who have made them. The Arbitration Committee deserves much of the praise/blame here.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]