You, Jimmy Wales, were spotted writing this on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:39:26PM -0600:
First of all, let me apologize to everyone for even
having this
conversation. I really wasn't aware of all that had gone before,
including the fact that Larry had already made a decision based on
existing consensus.
I believe this is an incorrect characterization of the issue. Larry made
the decision, but it was not based on any existing consensus.
(this isn't meant to criticize Larry's decision, although I happen to think
it's
misguided; it's meant to be a statement of facts as they are).
I'll note in passing an uncanny resemblance of all arguments Jimmy has advanced
in favor of subpages to all arguments I made on the Wikipedia discussion pages
regarding the same; considering that Jimmy apparently didn't read these pages,
the coincidence is remarkable.
I stopped discussing this particular issue on Wikipedia after seeing that all
discussions led nowhere.
--
Anatoly Vorobey,
my journal (in Russian):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/
mellon(a)pobox.com
http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton