[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

[Charles Matthews]

stevertigo wrote:
>  And I am not really "forcing" the issue - just getting
> the road cleared is all. 
Oh, have it your own way, then. It just looked, superficially, as if you 
were dead set on alienating large numbers of people, spamming lists, 
creating personal frictions and all that.

The thing is, if you are going to call up the "old days" precedents, 
then it will not do to invoke a partial and sepia-tinted version. There 
are several things we (I'm also an old-school Wikipedian) worked out 
then, including the idea that "Wikipedia is not a battleground". There 
are certainly people who continue to act as if it is. It is all very 
well to get worked up about glasnost' issues - we saw a lot of that in 
the last election. A rolling manifesto of abusing anyone connected with 
Arbitration is not actually any kind of solution to anything.

What you seek to do might very well be achieved by some forum 
unconnected to Wikipedia in any official sense.

Charles