On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:48 PM, Keith Old wrote:
We need to give serious thoughts to how processes intermerge before we look at making such a significant change to our processes.
No. We really don't. Because serious thought on Wikipedia has always amounted to navel-gazing, and perhaps some fiddling while Rome smolders. We need for the problem to become a real one. Then we can figure out what it is, and actually create a solution. A hypothetical solution to a theorized result of an experiment we're only discussing conducting is sufficiently removed from any notion of reality as to be a vapid philosophical exercise.
Turn off AfD. See what happens. if it's a disaster, we turn it back on and say "Well, shit, that was interesting." If it's not a disaster... we say "Well, neat, that was interesting." Really, there's only about three letters difference in the reactions.
-Phil