On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Bryan Derksen wrote:
I notice now that an arbitration case has been filed on this subject; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters. Haven't had time to read through it all yet.
I'm sure someone's going to reply to this with a snarky comment, but this looks an *awful* lot like rehash of spoiler warnings, except instead of removing spoiler tags, people are removing episode articles. And I'm not just saying that because it's a dispute, either.
For instance, note this from the proposed decision:
Editors who have been apprised that a particular change is controversial or disputed are expected to engage in discussion to resolve the dispute. It is inappropriate to repeat the change over a wide range of pages in order to present opponents with a fait accompli or to exhaust their ability to contest the change.