[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal: Why I devised this proposal

Mon May 16 20:21:03 UTC 2005

Pete/Pcb21 (pete_pcb21_wpmail at pcbartlett.com) [050517 05:53]:
> steven l. rubenstein wrote:

> >my real purpose is to spark a frank discussion about our 
> >NPOV policy.

Perhaps you could go vote in the pointless poll on [[WP:POINT]] too.

> Yeah really?
> A couple of points about your wikiquette today/yesterday:
> 1)Starting a vote on an issue when only side of the debate has had the 
> opportunity to put their
> 2) Blanket-messaging a whole bunch of talk pages about your policy 
> proposal (this is similar to "spamming")
> 3) When someone comments that you have been "spamming" you delete that 
> comment.
> 4) When someone restores that comment, you delete it again without 
> discussion when you to re-merge the duplicate pages.
> 5) After the merging, you simply delete the page name you don't like, 
> without a redirect and without a deletion debate.
> 6) You accuse another user of trying to use the other page name of 
> "vandalism" when it is nothing of the sort.
> 7) When someone undeletes the page, you delete it again without any 
> discussion.
> This is not consistent with wanting "to spark a frank discussion"

I foresee a new entry in [[WP:POINT]].

- d.