On 2/21/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Josh,
I'm almost speechless with rage at Jimbo's unilateral deletion of the encyclopedia article [[Brian Peppers]] - not to mention his locking (via [[User:Danny]] and [[WP:OFFICE]]) of [[Harry Reid]] for *five days*.
As I feared, userboxes have proven to be the canary in the coal mine. Now it's articlespace that is being jerked around.
Wikipedia ultimately must decide whether it wants to be Jimbo's personal fiefdom, or be "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". The two are clearly mutually exclusive at this point.
We were just discussing that ... Wikipedia *doesn't* want to be "the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit". There's too much abuse, too much ranting from trolls with a sense of self-entitlement, encouraged by that tagline.
I quite like the idea of "Welcome to Wikipedia, where good authors are always welcome".
Funny, I never realized you were the One True Prophet through whom Wikipedia speaks.
(Because you're not.)