[Wikipedia-l] Requests page

[Mark Williamson]

Hi Wouter,

"Thought police" refers not to your removal of requests, but rather
your removal of individual comments. Which you did do.

Mark

On 18/06/05, Wouter Steenbeek <musiqolog at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow list subscribers,
> 
> Yesterday I had the unpleasant experience that Mark Williamson scolded me
> for "Censor" and "Thought police". The reason was that I had deleted some of
> the requests on the Requests for new languages page on meta
> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages), and
> subsequently he placed most of them back, along with some other ones that
> had been removed by long, and not by me.
> 
> As a matter of facts, I got /furious/ and if Mark had stood right before me
> I would have spit into his face. Later however, he eludicated the reason why
> he placed them back, and we seem to agree on more things than I thought at
> first. The page /is/ really getting overloaded with requests and becomes too
> long. The difference was, he wanted to keep them anyway.
> 
> I may opinion, the right solution is to cut-and-paste them to an archive,
> newly to be created. I could very well create it right now, but thanks to
> Mark's great action I am unsure whether this wil be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Incompetent, inautoritive censor and thought police Wouter Steenbeek.
> 
> Btw: it seems perhaps a little inappropriate to discuss this meta topic on
> the Wikipedia mailing list, but since the topic is realted to the creation
> of new Wikipedias I took the liberty to post it here.
> 
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