[WikiEN-l] Votes for deletion and due process

Wed Aug 20 18:37:40 UTC 2003

Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:

>--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't agree with either of these sentences.  I
>>don't see any way for
>>our policy development process to be any more open
>>to input from the
>>community.  I can't think of a less secretive or
>>more noisy way to
>>organize anything.  There are no back rooms here --
>>everything is done
>>in public, with wide advertising throughout the
>>system of how it's
>>done.  We're always open to suggestions, of course,
>>but I think the
>>system right now is a model of public
>>accountability.
>>
>The system right now may have been good in your
>opinion, but it was developed without input or notice
>of many wikipedians. Maybe some had little input;
>maybe it was developed a year or two ago when many of
>us hadn't joined wikipedia. But either way, some
>wikipedians oppose the system, so it must be
>reconsidered
>
Excellent point!  LDan wasn't there in 1787.   ;-)

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