[WikiEN-l] Bus Uncle

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/7/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anthony is right, of course. I removed an item from the list, and
> > posted on the talk page of the article, and on this mailing list,
> > signalling my alarm that the item, in its present state, had been on
> > the list in the first place.
> >
> > This is how things are supposed to happen.
>
> Wrong.
>
> The process for the removal of featured article status is documented
> at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review -
> you do not have the right to unilaterally strip FA status.

Whether I do or do not have the right to "unilaterally strip FA
status" is a chimera. I never attempted to do that.  What I did was
remove a severely damaged article from the list of articles. The edit
was reversible, but the fact that I removed it, and the reasons I
gave, signalled my concerns.

This is how things work on a good wiki.  Requiring people to jump
through idiotic hoops isn't how we do things on Wikipedia.