[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Gwern Branwen]

On  0, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> scribbled:
> On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Naturally, a DRV is underway. I'm a bit surprised by how strongly it's
> > swinging "endorse" right now, this outcome strikes me as really bizarre.
> >  Is this more BLP mania in action? Why can't we have even a stub
> > biography of someone who's featured significantly in four other
> > articles? Shouldn't BLP apply just the same no matter where the material
> > winds up?
> >
> > I hate to start complaint threads like this one, but this really caught
> > me by surprise and I'm wondering if I'm really so far out of touch that
> > this should be making sense to me.
> >
> We need to get rid of that article. We've subjected Brandt to hundreds
> of thousands of words of debate, 14 AfDs, I don't know how many DRVs
> -- wall-to-wall bickering and childishness for 18 sorry months. We've
> allowed his article to be edited by any anonymous teenager who turns
> up with a grudge, and the decision to keep the wretched thing has been
> made 13 times by people who normally edit Star Trek. We've made
> complete fools of ourselves as a project.
...

Nice way to smear anyone who has ever supported keeping the article. Way to go there.

--
Gwern
Inquiring minds want to know.
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