Andrew Gray wrote:
This is a slightly hyperbolic paraphrase, but a true one. People get insanely twitchy if they think something is removed by request; they *asked* us to remove it? that means they don't want people to know it! it must be important! we must fight to keep it!
Exactly. I am generally reluctant to tell people exactly what the complainer has said, because there is a tiny minority who seems to think that this is some kind of censorship by me or the Wikimedia Foundation and/or a call to arms.
Usually, it is just an article that sucks, and a POV warrior grasping at straws to protect nonsense.
There are times that I think adopting the rule jp.wiki has on biographies would be a damn good idea...
AH!!!!! Please tell us! I love cross-cultural wikipedia differences.
It seems that (not to raise a completely other absurd Wikipedia issue) the Germans have taught us how to deal with idiotic userboxes... can the Japanese teach us how to deal with bios?
--Jimbo