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

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 13:33:45 UTC 2006


On 3/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Forgot to add the connection between the above points and the "some
> > articles having different policies" -- it's because appealing to the
> > Foundation is not official policy, but is an unwritten and semi-secret
> > method for getting changes to happen, only those who know about that
> > avenue (or figure it out) get to use it -- creating the effective
> > policy difference.
>
> Yep, only those who know the secret back passage can get the number of
> grandchildren in their article changed to its correct date. It seems
> to me from what I've read that most of the changes that get made in
> these cases are made as normal edits by Danny or someone. Only a very
> small number of articles get the "office" treatment, and those are
> publicly signposted.
>
> No one has yet pointed out a case where this avenue has been abused,
> either. That is, where an NPOV article become SymPOV due to threats by
> lawyers etc.
>
> So you're probably taking it a little too seriously.
>
If you follow this thread, I'm trying to understand why Jimbo called
Delirium's understanding of the situation "false". Do you agree with
Jimbo?



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