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@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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