[WikiEN-l] WTF? Is it suddenly OK to ignore consensus on AfD?

Sun Sep 25 17:46:57 UTC 2005

He was wrong. Now what?

Fred

On Sep 24, 2005, at 11:09 PM, Michael Turley wrote:

> On 9/25/05, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Even so, you really should have tried to communicate with him before
>> taking it too the list. I agree that the decision is totally absurd,
>> but you should let him defend himself first. And if he does, as you
>> suggest he will, ignore/blank you, you will have more ammo for a
>> discussion.
>>
>
>
> Ammo for discussion?  What's wrong with simply discussing the issue
> rather than gathering "ammo"?
>
> Look at it from my point of view: an arbitrator/administrator rebuffed
> my attempts to communicate with him.  An RfC was started, and it went
> nowhere, apparently because so many people refused to believe the RfC
> was about refusal to communicate, instead choosing to believe it was
> that he nominated articles en masse to VfD.
>
> If I had any reason to believe I would get a good faith answer from
> the person in question, I would post on his talk page.  However, not
> only have I not been given reason to believe that he'll communicate,
> I've seen the opposite because shortly after the last time, he added a
> somewhat hostile "policy" to his talk page which seems to be meant to
> justify his capriciousness.
>
> I'm not one to go banging my head against brick walls.  I don't like
> to waste my time, and I don't like the headaches.  Ignore me if you so
> choose, but I prefer to discuss this in the open with several other
> reasonalbe users rather than try to start a conversation with a single
> user who's already proven unresponsive to myself and several others on
> this exact issue.
>
> --
> Michael Turley
> User:Unfocused
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