[WikiEN-l] cancelation of the deletion review of the satanism userbox

Fri Jun 2 01:05:09 UTC 2006

On 6/2/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/2/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Tony is going around pissing people off badly enough that they RfC him
> > over
> > > it.
> >
> > George, if I breathe someone gets pissed off. This isn't normally
> > regarded as a cause for concern.
> >
>
> No, actually, your day to day stuff only ruffles people's feathers.
>
> Your attitude that it's ok to do that is annoying.
>
> Your attitude that it's ok to move beyond that into actually pissing them
> off, and doing things like rejecting RfCs out of hand merely because they're
> silly, is a serious problem.
>
> If people are actively pissed off at the way you're behaving it is a serious
> problem.  You are the single most active visible WP admin a lot of the time,
> and you're going around causing disruption and conflict throughout the
> community, and acting proud of it.  What, exactly, do you think that sends
> as a message to new editors?
>
> It is not ok to go around pissing people off.  It is important to figure out
> how to get things done without pissing them off.
>

Well said, And to think that people are worrying about "possible
polemical" effects and ignoring the deeper problems with the wikipedia
community structure.

Peter Ansell