[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Al Tally majorly.wiki at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 23 01:03:12 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Brian Salter-Duke
<b_duke at bigpond.com.au>wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:31:47 +0000, Chris Down <
> neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I see no '100 edits at meta' restriction. Am I missing something?
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_closing_projects%2FClosure_of_Simple_English_(2)_Wikipedia&diff=1400782&oldid=1400771<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_closing_projects%2FClosure_of_Simple_English_%282%29_Wikipedia&diff=1400782&oldid=1400771>
>
> and
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Simple_English_(2)_Wikipedia&diff=next&oldid=1401650<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Simple_English_%282%29_Wikipedia&diff=next&oldid=1401650>
>

As pointed out, the user in question has not provided a link to a home
project, to prove they have some sort of standing in the community. If this
sort of practice was accepted, I could just go and register several accounts
and vote how I wanted to skew the discussion. Voters have to have *some*
sort of eligibility. We generally ask for 100 edits to any project. You miss
the point where it says *any* project, not just Meta. A user's first edit to
come and vote on such a proposal is not normally the sort of edit an editor
would make. A link to a home project should be provided so the validity of
the vote can be checked.

-- 
Alex
(User:Majorly)



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