[WikiEN-l] Process is evil

[Matt Brown]

On 8/19/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Completely agreed; AGF means, in a nutshell, assume well-intended
stupidity over malice.

Our policy of Civility requires that you make some effort to be
reasonably polite about telling them that you think they're being
stupid, of course.  It doesn't mean you can't say it.

WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL do not mean that you can't call peoples' ideas for
what they are.

-Matt