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

Mon May 16 23:39:40 UTC 2005

>From: Pete/Pcb21 <pete_pcb21_wpmail at pcbartlett.com>
>steven l. rubenstein wrote:
>>my real purpose is to spark a frank discussion about our NPOV policy.
>
>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"
>
>Pete

I wasn't around for the fireworks, but from what I can tell, an "anti 
BCE/CE" voter tried to re-write the argument of the "pro BCE/CE" side in a 
way that subverted the "pro" argument, and tried to unilaterally move the 
page to do the same thing.

Jay.