[Foundation-l] Conflict resolution on meta Wikimedia

[David Gerard]

Christiaan Briggs (christiaan at last-straw.net) [050225 00:35]:
> David Gerard wrote:
 
> >>How does one purge debate while at the same announcing where it is in 
> >>the opening paragraph?

> >Evidently he feels it is profoundly lacking in prominence.

> You didn't answer my question.


Er, yes I did. That's three times I have now. Please go back and read the
posts, I'm not going to rephrase it a fourth time.


> >>Purge, in case you were unaware, means to remove. The only thing that 
> >>has happened, on the advice of, Rowan Collins, is that it has been 
> >>_moved_ so as discussion about technical implications is not drowned 
> >>by Gerard's shrill.

> >Are you assuming bad faith on Gerard's part?
 
> You used the word purge. Please explain what has been purged. I would 
> hate to think any of this discussion has been removed from Wikimedia.


>From a very relevant page. You can hardly claim a contentious move is not
being planned when you are actively planning it, and having such a page
give the impression it is anything other than highly contentious is
(evidently) problematic in itself.


- d.