On 1/4/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
We must stamp hard on this or we will have permitted these new editors
to rebuild Wikipedia in the form of a network of people classified by
political and religious alliances.
You keep saying this, but haven't yet explained how "stamping hard"
on userboxes is supposed to prevent new editors from classifying
themselves by politics and religion, or seeking out likeminded
editors.
I don't want to stop new editors classifying themselves by politics or
religion. I want to stop them abusing powerful Wikipedia resources
such as templates and categories in order to find people who share
their opinions, because this would be the end of consensus-based
decision-making on Wikipedia.
That's the kind of mechanism that works well on myplace and similar
forums, but it has no place here.