On 7/14/07, Mark Gallagher fuddlemark@gmail.com wrote:
Tell [[WP:COIN]]. That's what they deal with.
(From the initials, I assume COIN is an indication that yet another silly Noticeboard has been set up, this one for Conflicts Of Interest?)
Oh, God! I rather thought we'd set aside this thing of "don't tell the general community, there's a subset of self-appointed experts who are the sole authority on foo" once and for all more than a year ago[0], after the Community Justice/Civility Noticeboard fiasco.
I'm so, so out of touch ...
"once and for all" must be a figment of your history-non-repeating imagination ;) Being "in" touch is exhausting, stay out!
Re: noticeboards: See the header template http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Editabuselinks Noticeboards are no different than policy/guideline talkpages - all are run by "self-appointed experts"! and often by those at the extremes of the wiki-philosophy spectrum.
Re: civility noticeboard: See [[Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts]] and [[Wikipedia:Community sanction noticeboard]].
I'm all too aware of how much redundancy/duplication/overlap there is throughout our Help/WP pages, and how overwhelmed much of it is by the overenthusiastic-and-uninformed (*cough RfA cough* etc). However, I'm also continually surprised that it doesn't all come crashing to a halt, and at how few good-contributors seem to actually get burnt-out by it all.
(Also, Kim Bruning mentioned [[Nomic]] to me in passing, a year ago, which put everything in perspective!)
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