[Foundation-l] Conflict resolution on meta Wikimedia

[David Gerard]

Christiaan Briggs (christiaan at last-straw.net) [050224 23:36]:

> I've come back for more advice. Although the outlining of and 
> discussion about the desirability of [[End-user image suppression]] has 
> been moved to [[Desirability of End-user image suppression]], and this 
> is made clear in the opening paragraph of [[End-user image 
> suppression]], User:GerardM is still insisting on posting desirability 
> discussion to [[End-user image suppression]]. What to do?


The desirability discussion presumably needs greater notice in the
technical discussion. Many people (myself included) consider separation of
technical methods of implementing a highly debatable policy decision from
debate of the desirability of that policy decision to be artificial and
disingenuous at best. Doing so appears to make the debatable social
decision a fait accompli. Trying to send *all* criticism off to a separate
article is also a favourite tool of POV warriors on en: and presumably
elsewhere; possibly this is seen as reminiscent of that.


- d.