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]])