[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] Indefinite ban problem

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 02:58 PM
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] Indefinite ban problem

On 30 Sep 2007 at 21:43:19 +0100, <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> 
wrote:
[long line rewrapped in accordance with RFC 2822]
> On the other hand, the degree of external scrutiny of the site is
> vastly increased, and this has led to some jittery times. I
> recommend editing articles. Really, it all makes more sense if you
> look at the working enviroment in terms of the work. 

The external scrutiny seems to have led to a "bunker mentality" among 
some of the dominant personalities on Wikipedia, where they think the 
sky is falling and insist that we all need to circle our wagons 
against the outside attackers, and anybody not supporting them is 
supporting The Terrorists.

-- 
== Dan ==

I must admit I have never seen any positive contribution to either the mailing list or policy discussions on Wikipedia from you. It's like you live in an abstract world where our practical problems are not known.

Fred