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

Mon Jun 5 00:11:26 UTC 2006

On 6/5/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/4/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/5/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My objection in short: "Fuck process" is, here and now, more of a
> > problem
> > > for Wikipedia than any of the individual wrongs Tony has righted using
> > that
> > > justification, of late.
> >
> > That obviously isn't even remotely true.  Look at the latest RfC:
> > people who object to *refactoring a talk page* because the aim is to
> > remove useless and intrusive formatting.  I'd say "fuck process" here
> > because, really, process is simply being used as an obstacle to the
> > simple act of improving the editing environment by removing useless
> > crap.
>
>
>
> It is never good to piss people off.
>
> That you feel that you have to do so is a stunning indictment of your
> current attitude problem.
>
>

I don't have an attitude problem.  I don't have to piss people off.
However it seems to me that some people are queuing up to be pissed
off over trivia.  There is no substance to the complaint.

And that is quite a different situation.