[WikiEN-l] Don't remove a WP:OFFICE tag put there by Danny

[Jimmy Wales]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> geni wrote:
> 
>>/Temp exists for such purposes. Outright blanking is pretty much
>>garenteeded to be reverted.
>>  
> 
> Weird, I agreed with everything Geni just wrote. :) Requiring an article 
> to be rewritten from the ground up when there's nothing actually _wrong_ 
> with it, or at least nothing that a little editing can't fix, is silly. 

And I agree with you.

> Ideally neither, of course - if the subject is tossing about legal 
> threats and such a temporary blanking might be in order while that gets 
> sorted out (_not_ temporary deletion - deletion is not a good way to 
> "store" material out of sight for later use, as I've ranted about 
> previously). But it must be dealt with in a timely manner and explained 
> thoroughly and transparently to the people working on the article 
> itself. A while back I restored Harlan Ellison's article several months 
> after Jimbo had blanked it because there'd been no indication of any 
> work being done on the dispute with Ellison since that time, not even 
> after I asked for an update on Jimbo's talk page. I don't think it'd be 
> appropriate to block me for taking such action today.

Agreed completely.

The best thing to happen upon _any_ WP:OFFICE action is a quick swarm of
good editors, particularly those with no prior interest in the subject.
 That hasn't always happened in the past, partly because there was no
obvious WP:OFFICE tag/template to draw people's attention to it.



--Jimbo




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