[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[julieharding1 at charter.net]

---- Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Philip Welch wrote:
> > 
> > On May 5, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Phil Boswell wrote:
> >> It's not
> >> as if those articles on Pokemon are taking up space which would  
> >> otherwise be
> >> available for your own pet subject.
> > Undue weight. It's absurd for Pokemon to have 10,000 times more  
> > coverage within Wikipedia as, for instance, 19th century philosophy.
> > 
> {{sofixit}}: rather than bitching that there are too many articles about
> something you don't like, try writing more articles about something you do.
> 
> In the meantime, who's going to want to write new articles in an environment
> which is at times actively poisonous towards newbies?
> 
> If you can get jumped with an AfD notice before you're finished writing a
> simple Pokemon article, who will want to invest the effort writing a complex
> article which will have "nn, delete" and "yah, boo, you're expertize meanz
> nothing to us, you elitist pig!!11!!" plastered over it before the virtual
> ink has dried?
> 
> We need to move towards an environment which will nurture the current
> generation of Pokemon writers and help them mature into
> 19th-century-literature writers at their own pace, rather than drive them
> away to their own little Pokepedia and lose them forever.
> -- 
> Phil
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You are kidding aren't you?  You are using Pokemon as a metaphor right?  Please tell me that Pokemon is not a subject in Wikipedia.  No Phil, you're just being a jerk and screwing with my head again.  Knock it off.  And if Pokemon really is in there, then it's your idiocy.
-Boobs
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