[WikiEN-l] CheeseDreams/Cultural and Historical Background of Jesus

[steven l. rubenstein]

As some of you know there is an endless debate on this article's talk 
page.  Sometimes, there is actually constructive discussion.  I am in a 
conflict with CheeseDreams that is under mediation.  But I turn to all of 
you for hopefully immediate aid on another issue.

As the talk page gets too long, CheeseDreams summarizes the 
discussion.  She claims to do this to save space as "some editors are 
verbose."  There are two problems with this.  First, it is CheeseDreams who 
does the summarizing, so in effect she has taken it upon herself to 
represent all parties in any dispute.  Second, the summaries themselves 
take up a huge amount of space.  John Kenney has already questioned this 
practice (which I don't think is common).  I just archived a huge amount of 
material and asked CheeseDreams to stop summarizing.  But she is currently 
summarizing.  She is summarizing the last two days worth of 
discussion.  This is ridiculous -- we should archive old material, but keep 
new material -- material that is still under discussion -- 
available.  CheeseDreams'  method of summarizing doesn't really save a lot 
of space, but it does rewrite in CheeseDreams' words what other people are 
saying.

I know CheeseDreams is not intending to vandalize the page, and I can't 
call this vandalism.  But it is wrong, horribly wrong.

I am not calling for her to be banned or blocked.  I am a party to a 
dispute under mediation and can't do anything.  But I ask someone to do 
something about this obsessive "summarizing."  Please.  Someone.  Help.

Steven L. Rubenstein
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bentley Annex
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701