On Aug 19, 2006, at 3:24 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 19/08/06, Dabljuh dabljuh@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@english.ufl.edu
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