[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

Fri May 5 20:14:21 UTC 2006

On 5/5/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> On May 5, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> > That's a major problem. Perhaps if we change the emphasis from
> > "deleting it", with its connotations of purging it from the surface of
> > the earth, to "moving it out of Wikipedia"?
>
> Gah! Enough with these stupid euphemisms!
>

You mean differently intelligent

> "Voting" has changed to "finding consensus", but the process remains
> the same. User conduct regulation is called "dispute resolution", but
> focuses mainly on finding a pseudo-judicial basis to ban troublesome
> editors.

Not true. Article RFCs can resolve dissputes. I don't know about medation.

> We *delete* things that don't belong here. Deal with it.

I reserve the right to continue to use the description Vaporise in
edit and deletion summeries.

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geni