On 2/3/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/3/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it (and there's a good chance I got this all wrong, if I did, please forgive me) this whole thing started with some discussion of [[Gazeebow Unit]] at WP:ANI, and Tony said "This issue has been discussed on wikien-I". Some people then said (I'm paraphrasing here) "Well, we weren't a part of that discussion, could we please bring it up in a forum which everyone is happy with". The response (again, paraphrasing) "Hey, if you don't want to subscribe that's your problem", and that got the snowball rolling.
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Not really. The thing had already been discussed on WP:DRV. In both places there was a lot of positive response, and in any case this wasn't exactly a revolutionary move or a policy change. It was just a personal decision.
While this is no doubt true, that's not what offended people. It was not very "diplomatic" to just go out and say that it's already been discussed on wikien, what I'm saying is that all this could have een avoided if all parties had had a more civil tone.