On 6/2/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Let's just get this straight: does anybody claim that these pages are necessary to the encyclopedia?
Necessary: no more so than most of our rules, guidelines, procedures, templates, user-pages, user-page templates, and other miscellaneous administrative mechanisms -- or, in fact, this mailing list. But, desirable -- yes.
Here's what I said in my last message on the subject, in the other thread:
"Note that ironically enough, I counted 9 !votes to "move to BJAODN" on other MfDs for completely unrelated articles... BJAODN is a stronger part of Wikipedia's culture than many people realize. In general, things that make people feel like they are part of a community are useful, including open in-jokes. If we are busted for not following the GFDL (by whom, exactly? with what interpretation?) it's not going to be for this part of the site."
-- phoebe