[WikiEN-l] Proliferation of temps

Fri Aug 1 20:39:40 UTC 2003

The battle on [[New Imperialism]] is reaching absurd levels. First we had 
Pizza Puzzle /insisting/ that his rival version to the main article should 
be advertised on it. Whatever about advertising a new draft being prepared 
that was scheduled to replace the main article, to have the official article 
and PP's personal alternative rewrite seemed absurd. Encyclopædias do not 
normally put in two rival versions of an article. I protected the page to 
stop the constant attempts of PP to insert it until people had a chance to 
discuss whether this was a good idea. (PP refused to wait until it was 
discussed and insisted that he be allowed to have his way). We had a vote 
and a narrow majority agreed to put in the link /for one week/.

The page has since been redesigned and reduced in size, negating one of PP's 
main complaints about the live page. But now it turns out that we have not 
just one but TWO temps being placed on the main page.

This temp madness is becoming a joke. It is barely encyclopædic to put two 
rival drafts on the one page. But now THREE??? We have the main one and two 
temps. This is plain silly. We have agreed to PP's temp1 being there for one 
week but now introducing Temp 2 is madness. I have removed the Temp 2 link 
and will be placing a link to it, alongside Temp 1, on then talk page, where 
Temp 1 was only supposed to be linked to in the first place.

JT

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