[Wikipedia-l] New logo and further process

[Richard Grevers]

On 26 Sep 2003 16:18:00 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> gave 
utterance to the following:

> tarquin-
>
>> And the whole voting process has been a complete fiasco.
>
> Thanks for your constructive feedback, Tarquin. I'll take it into account
> the next time I organize something like this.
>
There wasn't a problem with the voting process. The problem was the lack 
of a qualification stage where each entrant was judged as to whether or 
not it meets the brief. Thus the vote was uneven. It was likely that many 
voters had no understanding that some logos had technical problems and 
merely voted of symbolism or aesthetics. While others of us made a more 
suitability-based judgement.
The winner doesn't, IMO, comply with the design brief, and without 
significant revision to make it comply to the brief it should not have 
made it to the voting starting line.
-- 
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried