[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[David Gerard]

On 06/06/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed. I'm not sure if Andrew has the date down right, but some time in
> 2006 seems correct. I remember feeling impressed around the beginning of '06
> that I was still seeing new admins and editors who shared the same
> philosophy and principles of Wikipedians I remember from when I started out
> in '03/'04, but I can't recall having a similar experience since then.


The beginning of 2006 was the Userbox Wars, where Kelly Martin got a
ridiculous RFC against her for ... removing blatantly
copyright-violating "fair use" images from userboxes.


- d.