[WikiEN-l] Chicago situation resolved.

[Steve Summit]

Moreschi wrote:
> OK, sure, but when you have community for the sake of community that's the 
> sort of stuff you can expect to put up with. Wikipedia has an encyclopedic 
> purpose distinct from that: we are not supposed to be collection of 
> self-help services, suicide prevention, and social services all rolled
> into one.

And for the most part, we're not.  But turns out that *you can't
escape the community stuff*.  Any time you get a bunch of people
working together on something, the community aspects are going
to surface, whether you want them to or not.  You can try to
mitigate them, but you can't eliminate them, and if you try too
hard, you'll royally piss people off, to everyone's detriment.

If you haven't read "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy", do so:
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html .