My main problem with the transwiki'ing thing is that Wikibooks has considerably different rules, where the major contributors to a specific "book" get more say in what can go in and what cannot, or what they want it to look like.
I personally think that is downright antiwiki, but when I tried to get involved I was met with stiff opposition from Gentgeen who is obsessed about territorialism and the like, and said that the current antiwiki policy had been decided by "community consensus".
Among other things decided on Wikibooks by "community consensus", at least one addition to [[b:en:What Wikibooks is not]] was added by "consensus" with the final poll results being 1-0, Gentgeen having been the only one to vote for it. In addition, voting by Wikipedians in matters such as VfD, VfU, RfA, and just about anything else is completely disregarded by Gentgeen unless they are "regular" contributors to Wikibooks, although notably he DOES count them when it benefits his position.
The current policy on Wikibooks is tantamount to me saying on Wikipedia "OK, I wrote this article, so since I'm the main contributor, I have a large amount of control over what goes".
Mark
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I discovered today that recipes are now legally deleted from the english wikipedia where they are not welcome any more.
Still, I had the memory there was no clear agreement on doing so, and for months, there was a sort of balance with removing all those of minor dishes, while keeping those from typical ones.
When I tried to make a policy on the topic, clearly, there was no agreement. Neither to keep, neither to delete. Mostly two factions.
Today, I realised all had been deleted. I restored one and was immediately reverted by Gentgeen (of course, he is the one who deleted them) and he pointed to me a policy on "what Wikipedia is not".
On this page, it is written that recipes should not be kept in Wikipedia. So, now, Gentgeen has a argument to revert me, and possibly even the right to block me if I restore a recipe.
My question :
- why is it so that rules are written in the big book (what wikipedia is
not) which makes reference, while these rules are not widely agreed on the project ? If not agreed but by a couple of bold people, should they be used to revert the others ?
I realised the recipes were not welcome any more at all today, because a couple of french people wish to delete them as well on the french wikipedia. And one of their arguments is that the english wikipedia decided to delete them (and so, they must be right !).
I removed the rule as is now, and asked the editor who initially added it to show me where this was supported initially.
Ant
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