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

[Ray Saintonge]

Slim Virgin wrote:

>The problem doesn't lie with the procedure for closing, but with the
>fact that we allow anyone, almost certainly including people with
>multiple accounts, to have an equal say in deciding matters of
>importance to the project. It's one thing to be the encyclopedia that
>anyone can edit, but it's another to be a top-ten website that anyone
>of any age determines the direction of, even if it includes running
>over a cliff like a bunch of lemmings.
>
I am not so insecure as to worry about the age of any contributor, 
whether to articles or policies.  Over an extended period of time they 
will be affected by policies, so why shouldn't they have input?  Why 
shouldn't their views be taken as equally important to the views of 
those who by chance happened to be here to write the policies in the 
first place.

Individuals with multiple accounts are a completely different matter, 
and that has nothing to do with age.

>At some point, we'll have to face that allowing any account, even a
>very recent one, to take part in policy discussions, BLP issues, and
>important AfDs is editorial, moral, and legal folly.
>
That kind of abject elitism would make us a very different place.

Ec