[WikiEN-l] Bus Uncle

[Anthony]

On 6/6/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/6/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> Some people thought it was important to have a single person choosing
> which
> > articles are featured on the front page.  Those of us who disagreed and
> > thought that it should instead be chosen by a collaborative process were
> > outvoted, and conceded.  Mark was named "featured article dictator",
> then
> > it
> > was changed to "featured article director", and proceeded to extend his
> > powers to what they are now.  No one really challenged him, because
> those
> > of
> > us who wanted the process to be community pretty much stopped
> > participating
> > altogether in the whole featured article mess.
>
>
> I never messed around much with FA during my time. Who on earth made that
> dumb decision to give him (or anyone) alone such power? And why on Earth
> hasn't it be undone in the name of common sense?


I believe it was User:Zocky that came up with the idea, and the vast
majority of people who commented supported it.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zocky/FA_Tomorrow
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Today's_featured_article/archive_2#A_simple_proposal