On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
You, Jimmy Wales, were spotted writing this on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:39:26PM -0600: > First of all, let me apologize to everyone for even having this > conversation. I really wasn't aware of all that had gone before, > including the fact that Larry had already made a decision based on > existing consensus.
I believe this is an incorrect characterization of the issue. Larry made the decision, but it was not based on any existing consensus.
Yes, I'm not aware that there was a consensus. It was, rather, a decision to get a choice behind us, in view of my understanding of the issues and in view of the fact that, by my count, most of those who had weighed in about subpages were opposed to them or wouldn't mind having them removed.
I'll note in passing an uncanny resemblance of all arguments Jimmy has advanced in favor of subpages to all arguments I made on the Wikipedia discussion pages regarding the same; considering that Jimmy apparently didn't read these pages, the coincidence is remarkable.
Well, it's just a sign that you're both observing the same phenomena, and coming to the same conclusions about them. The conclusions just happen to be wrong, in many cases! :-)
Larry