[WikiEN-l] Process is evil

[Phil Sandifer]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 3:24 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 19/08/06, Dabljuh <dabljuh at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Funny enough, Talking about people is forbidden by process.
>> WP:NPA, WP:Civil, WP:AGF those policies prevent you from even
>> thinking loudly that "Greg fucked up" and force you to pretend
>> every screwball with a POV is a perfectly decent person with
>> a great, encompassing understanding of not only the subject but
>> also the whole concept of collaborative writing.
>
>
> Bollocks it does. This fallacious view seems to be held by many on AFD
> - where saying someone's deletion nomination was completely
> wrongheaded, misguided and stupid will get some idiot claiming that
> you have "assumed bad faith" of the nominator. No, I've assumed bad
> *judgement*, with the nomination as the evidence.

Speaking of which, did we ever change the capsule summary on AGF to  
"Never assume malice when brain-searing idiocy will suffice?"

Best,
Phil Sandifer
sandifer at english.ufl.edu

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