On 6/6/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, Anthony wikimail@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%27s_featured_article/archi...