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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 22:01, En Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:

think that we should move in the opposite direction, permitting and possibly even encouraging people to be social (within reasonable limits) while working collaboratively on our collective project of Wikipedia.

I agree. When I was a new editor I got into a friendly chat with an established Wikipedian. We exchanged a few light-hearted pleasantries and it did a lot to make me feel welcome in my new environment.

I don't think we should be asking that people keep their talk pages "on topic" as it were. Indeed I had no idea that we do.

Bodnotbod

I've made an RFC on-wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Proposal_...

Comments, for and against, are welcome there.

Thanks,

Pine