[WikiEN-l] Let's not get rid of VfD

Sat Jan 10 19:56:19 UTC 2004

Rick wrote:
> I am just so sick of being told that every single thing I do is
>wrong.  And now Jimbo, the so-called "benevolent dictator", is
>attacking me for what I thought was right.  Well, I must be wrong,
>then, so why should I continue doing what is obviously wrong?

Rick, how am I attacking you?  I fully support your work.  I don't
really know what you're talking about.

Let me repeat -- my complaints about VfD are not complaints about all
deletions, nor are they complaints about most of what goes on there.

Allow me to give a very inexact analogy.  Imagine a court system in
which 99% of the time defendants are given a fair trial, but in 1% of
the cases they are not, perhaps due to some loophole in the process.

A person can say that the process is broken, because in a small but
important number of cases the wrong thing is done, without thereby
criticizing in any way the other 99%.

You're solidly in the 99%.

I have no complaints about people working to clean up vandalism and my
concerns should not be taken as a slight against anyone doing that.

--Jimbo