daniwo59(a)aol.com wrote:
Anthony has engaged in an edit war on the Main Page. I
blocked him for
24 hours.
Danny
There has been a breakdown in the wiki-process here.
As I understand it:
1) Up until today, Raul654 has been the sole judge of what goes on the
featured article area of the main page. This has mainly been on the
grounds of practicality.
2) Anthony disliked that so much editorial power rests with one
individual and wanted to institute some system, albeit more bureaucratic
than the above model, that would allow greater involvement of the
community. i.e. in his view make the process more wiki. (I personally
thing models where there is devolution of responsibility to trusted
individuals can be compatible with the wiki way).
3) Anthony repeatedly makes this suggestion at
[[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates]] where he finds a good
deal of support that the current model is not very wiki. However no
changes are effected. The talk page wiki process has effectively failed him.
4) In the particular case of Martha Stewart, Anthony takes matters into
his own hands, breaking long-standing rules that Anthony knows all about.
5) Anthony is banned.
6) Proposals, very much along the lines of Anthony's, are proposed at
[[Template_talk:Feature]] and look like they will be accepted.
This seems WRONG! It took the action of a revert/edit war on the main
page to get proposals accepted where talk pages failed.
Are we really saying that if you want to get something done you have to
break the rules and accept a temporary punishment in "sacrifice"?
Pete/Pcb21