On 6/7/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/06/07, Tony Sidaway
<tonysidaway(a)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.