On 6/5/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Joe Szilagyi wrote:
The mass
titanic shifts with BLP currently underway--where a very small minority
of
users are very aggressively trying to change the
tone of something more
to
>their suiting... will be impossibly harder to get to stick. On the
other
hand,
populist ideas--BADSITES, anyone?--will be able to gain traction
easily.
I reject your notion that BADSITES was a populist idea.
Ec
You're absolutely right on that one - the majority of editors opposing
that particular idea were newer and less involved in the internal
workings
of Wikipedia - the supporters were almost
exclusively long term, highly
proliferate editors with extensive experience in the internal politics
of
Wikipedia. It would be more accurate to say that
*opposition* to
BADSITES
was the populist movement. Incidentally, why
does that acronym still
redirect to WP:NPA?
Risker
That's not how I recall it panning out - I seem to recall a significant
number of longtime editors expressing doubts about BADSITES on this list,
and I think I've been around for longer than quite a few BADSITES advocates.
IIRC, there were arbitrators on both sides of the debate. Characterising the
argument as one between oldies and newbies, regardless of which side you
place them on, isn't very helpful.
Johnleemk