On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being responsive to the concerns raised.
While there's 475 links to wikitech-l archives on en wikipedia. That's more than a "few" imo.
The real concern here is that many of those links will never be fixed, and people looking in the obscure talk page archives of wikipedia, will never be able to find the relavent mailing posts. This makes it much harder to look into the history of certain things. I'm aware similar incidents have happened in the past - that does not make future incidents ok.
Indeed. Sorry if I implied that.
I think the proper way forward is to:
1. Adjust our procedures for thread deletion so that this situation doesn't occur again. 2. Fix the links, if the effort level isn't insane.
Secondly, I'd just like to extend a giant *hug* to Daniel Zahn, who from the sounds of it did not expect this to be such a controversial issue.
Third, I'd like to reiterate what others said about folks taking a chill pill. Additionally I'd like to add that mistakes happen, we all make them. The important thing is to realize we've made a mistake, mitigate the affect of the mistake, and document the mistakes so that others don't make them. Yelling and screaming about mistakes doesn't really help anything.
+1
Things break, mistakes get made, etc. It's a normal part of life, and a very normal part of ops. It makes for a much nicer environment when people point out issues in a calm and polite fashion.
- Ryan