SCZenz wrote:
I've become more and more convinced that the
inmates are indeed
running the asylum on these issues, so my question to you is: what do
you think we (as ordinary users who agree with your non-decree) should
do?
Work gently to build a friendly loving culture in which outright
partisanship is discouraged, while individuality and an appreciation for
differences is valued. Sometimes, of course, individuality and
differences are manifested in outright partisanship, so there's no
simple answer to how to draw the line between the two.
I mostly worry about userboxes being a leveragepoint for the building of
political factions within Wikipedia. (And I don't mean "wikipedia
politics" like "deletionists/inclusionists" but actual politics like
"The Association of Anti-Evolutionist Wikipedians" who might want to
turn wikipedia articles into ideological battlegrounds.)
Mostly I would like to see people not beating each other up about this.
:) I have a preference here for a social attitude that "here we are
Wikipedians," meaning: let's leave our political fights at the door to
the greatest extent that we can.
--Jimbo