On 10 September 2014 18:54, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When a specific way of working insists on talk pages,
it means that the
associated workflow has to be revisited and changed with urgency. It cannot
be permitted that special interests take the whole of the much needed
change hostage. "Leaving this material unchecked ..." is FUD. It is not an
argument that prevents change, at most it means that a different mechanism
has to be designed for that special interest.
You are entirely correct. Nevertheless, the change still needs to be
accepted by the crusty old editors who are used to the old ways. So
we're now at the stage of: "how do we make experienced editors want
and demand this?"
- d.