Message: 6
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:05:09 +1000
From: "Peter Ansell" <ansell.peter(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] cancelation of the deletion
review of the
satanism userbox
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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On 6/2/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On 6/2/06, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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
I think one should not expect any action, in
general, from the people who are well fed by the
current structure which makes them feel superior, make
any attempt towards a bit of change. It is a
sociological principle that status quo always resists
to the reforms. The community needs to take initiative
in that direction. [[WP:OURS]] was a humble example of
such efforts waiting for the community involvement.
Resid
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