On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:30, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Replace "Alpha Centauri" with
"Wikipedia:Votes for deletion" and
"demolition beams" with "deletion." The last thing we need is for
our
Admins to be perceived as Vogons who are "not actually evil, but bad
tempered,
bureaucratic, officious and callous."
This latest effort at increasing the amount of work one has to do to get
anything useful done is just helping that perception along. Every time I turn
around there's another largely political detail I have to be aware of, and
it's doing anything but encourage me to contribute to Wikipedia.
I've had to put up with pointless procedures on volunteer projects before. I'm
not about to do it again.