[WikiEN-l] Light entertainment

[Rory Stolzenberg]

To the contrary, WP:POINT doesn't prohibit all makings of points, it only
prohibits disruption to make a point, so this doesn't violate anything.
Also, discussion of why something is wrong is the first step to fixing it,
so discussion is certainly a good thing.

On 3/30/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I added a question to the RFA.
>
> Your comment that it's "pleasing" that it's turning into a debate on the
> system rather than your nomination worries me a bit because it means your
> nomination could be considered a violation of WP:POINT to get this
> discussion going, but I'll assume good faith for now. If you think the
> current RFA process doesn't work, I believe submitting a new process
> rather
> than nominating yourself using the process you dislike is the way to go,
> IMO.
>
> Mgm
>
>
> On 3/30/07, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:
> >
> > Some of you may recall that a few months back I had a go at the RfA
> > process (and failed, of course [1]). Well, I'm demonstrating again
> > that I clearly don't know what's good for me:
> >
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Earle_Martin_2
> >
> > I'm losing, of course, but this time it's turning into a big
> > discussion between the pro-RfA-system and anti-RfA-system camps. This
> > is pleasing. While I'm not explicitly asking for your votes (although
> > I certainly wouldn't say no to them), any replies to comments on the
> > page would be of interest, for policy discussion's sake.
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikien-l/2006-October/055827.html
> >
> > --
> > Earle Martin
> >            http://downlode.org/
> > http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
> >
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