[WikiEN-l] There WAS an attack, Stan

[The Cunctator]

On 6/4/03 2:39 PM, "Tony Wilson" <list at redhill.net.au> wrote:

> There WAS an attack, Stan. Did you miss it?.
> 
> It was a unilaterial, sustained, and deliberate attempt to flout the
> naming conventions that we have already discussed and agreed on long
> since. One particular "contributor" (who, needless to add, has no known
> track record of adding to the fauna articles) went on a one-man revert
> rampage, even stooping to cut & paste page moves. This went on for
> several hours and succeeded only in wasting a great deal of the time of
> genuine contributors. (Not just me.) It took the combined efforts of
> several Wikipedians to restore the sometimes quite ugly hacks.
> 
> We have long since decided on naming conventions for birds and mammals.
> The question is what are we doing with reptiles, fish, and other taxa?
> The sooner that is decided on, the sooner we can stop wasting time on
> jaw-jaw and get on with improving the 'pedia without distraction and
> without fear of having to re-do masses of stuff.

Hooray! Thank goodness for your decisive command and warm attitude.