On 1/3/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)gmail.com> wrote:
They certainly do less harm than this whole ordeal
has. Some people just
can't stand to have anything on Wikipedia that disagrees with their
principles, and they're willing to go to war over it. This is a great
example. The war is more damaging than the thing you're going to war over.
We all should really just call it quits on this one.
These unproductive users cause harm every day on hundreds of talk
pages and articles, editing carelessly, insulting people, looking for
ways to cause trouble, coming back with sock puppets if blocked,
getting friends from outside Wikipedia to join in revert wars. The
user box issue is just the first time they've joined forces, and it's
a good thing in a way that it's happening over this and not over some
policy change they try to force through, which will happen soon enough
if we don't get a grip.
Sarah