David Gerard wrote:
Matt R wrote:
Doesn't seem overly "spikey" to me, unless I've missed further debate elsewhere. Why exactly do these Wikipedians need to "cool it"? As AfD goes, it seems pretty harmless. I'm sorry, but I don't really think it's constructive to shout and swear at Wikipedians based on what appears to be an unconvincing example of us treating outsiders badly.
Whether he's overreacting or not is actually not so relevant. When we piss off people with an audience, they will tend to say so to their audience. Is this something to be avoided if possible?
[ ] yes [ ] no
Feel free to stay in self-righteous denial about a PR nightmare.
- d.
Telling people to cool it won't solve anything, from my experience -- especially in a volunteer project. As I've been saying on [[WT:AFD]], we need to reduce the volume on AfD so people:
1. Don't get stressed out and all tense from voting "delete" on a dozen garage bands, and carry this attitude over to possibly valid article deletion debates; 2. Are able to devote more time to reviewing the points of fact on each controversial debate, and thus come to a more reasoned conclusion; 3. Don't have to worry about brevity for the sake of ensuring all "nn bio" articles are deleted -- many AfD regulars keep their comments brief because they have to spread their attention over almost 200 debates everyday.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])