[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 28/02/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> People will wait it out. And during that period will likely respond by
> shoving more borderline stuff into CSD. Or in the case of admins
> outright out of process deletion.
> Neither of these two is a good outcome.


This happens already.


> Attacking the AFD regulars or irregulars head on wont work. They will
> react by viewing you as enemy and will likely oppose any reforms by
> default. This is basic wikipedia politics.


This has been happening two years. So, no new problem to deal with.


> Other than that the various suggestions have involved little more than
> tinkering. Ultimately the only way we have of dealing with the hard
> cases is to sit down and have a !vote.


I propose shutting down the process for some hard thinking about what
lies underneath. So far we have a lot of people utterly convinced
they're right and that anyone who disagrees is an idiot at best.


- d.