Joe Szilagyi wrote:
The mass
titanic shifts with BLP currently underway--where a very small minority
of
users are very aggressively trying to change the
tone of something more
to
their suiting... will be impossibly harder to get
to stick. On the other
hand, populist ideas--BADSITES, anyone?--will be able to gain traction
easily.
I reject your notion that BADSITES was a populist idea.
Ec
You're absolutely right on that one - the majority of editors opposing
that particular idea were newer and less involved in the internal workings
of Wikipedia - the supporters were almost exclusively long term, highly
proliferate editors with extensive experience in the internal politics of
Wikipedia. It would be more accurate to say that *opposition* to BADSITES
was the populist movement. Incidentally, why does that acronym still
redirect to WP:NPA?
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