On 3/7/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
You know, policy and process used to be relaxed because Wikipedia was a wholly new thing and no one had any idea how to make it work yet. We could only figure out what works through experience. But as time passed, and as experience repeated itself, we learned from it and the patterns inherent in it. There was quite a lot of naive innocence in the old days, but it couldn't last forever. What was once an amorphous mass is slowly taking shape and solidifying. As time passes it will inevitably solidify further. Corrections and adaptations will be made in an endless process, as it is with all evolving things, whether they are animals or city-states.
Your use of such phrases as "no one had any idea", "naive","amorphous" clearly indicates your bias.