[WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again

Sun Oct 30 16:23:20 UTC 2005

> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again
> Mark Gallagher stated for the record:

> When a system is so destructively broken that numerous members of the
> community realize that it is impossible to repair and begin calling  
> for
> its complete abolition (and use apt phrases such as "dynamite enema"),
> it is time for that system's defenders to question their fanaticism.

"Numerous" members of the community have been calling for the  
abolition of VfD, using intemperate rhetoric, for _at least_ two  
years. It's not new.

For some literally inflammatory rhetoric see http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/User:GRider, posted a year ago.  I think that's stronger than  
"dynamite enema."

I don't see any evidence that it's intensifying. There has been a  
constant debate between significantly differing visions of Wikipedia  
for as long as I've been paying attention.

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