[WikiEN-l] Reflections on the end of the spoiler wars

[David Gerard]

On 16/11/2007, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> This argument seems to generally have been exceptionally "clean" and devoid
> of noticably policy-violation behavior on any side.


About all there was was some 3RR blocks on advocates of spoilers.

The advocates of spoilers were sure the action of removal of spoilers
was a violation of *something*, but shopped it to every venue they
could, including an MFD, a policy RFC, arbitration twice, mediation -
during which Ken seriously proposed putting back all 45,000 spoilers,
presumably including the ones on [[The Three Little Pigs]], [[Hamlet]]
and [[Anagram]] - and even the AutoWikiBrowser permissions talk page
... and failed to interest anyone in their cause. I suggest this is
because they didn't and don't have a case.


> Phil, I understand that you're tired of it, but you've been painting a
> picture of an unethical opposition here which does not match my recollection
> of events or any evidence I've seen posted anywhere.


Coming here and making false claims of ban threats in the
abovedescribed processes is not just sore losing, but odious.


- d.