On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:
On 10/9/08, Philip Sandifer
<snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, did we finally do away with an innocuous
innovation that actually
measurably and demonstrably increased the number of free images we
have in favor of short-term concerns about how "pretty" articles
look?
Some day I hope we can finally develop policies that are actually a
complete impediment to the development of a free content resource
instead of these minor speedbumps we usually muster.
Well, it's one thing to say "don't over-use 'em" but it soon
becomes a
race to see who can first run a thinly disguised bot to remove them
all, just like the fucking date links.
Whereas, frankly, what would be more appropriate would be running a
bot on Category:Living people to add them where they don't exist.
I strongly concur.
Wikipedia is a work in progress, and it's pretty much impossible to
hide that. So I think it's okay to have some dust on the floor as the
result of actions which hasten our long term progress.