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

Mon Jun 5 01:57:53 UTC 2006

On Jun 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 6/5/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/4/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's not trivia to them, Tony.
>
> That is the problem in a nutshell.  Their signatures on a discussion
> page are more important than the aims of improving the readability and
> ease of editing on the  discussion page.  Their lack of perspective is
> thus a problem for Wikipedia.
Certainly.  But you pissing them off *does not solve the problem.*  
That is the problem with your approach, in a nutshell.  As you said, 
the lack of readability of the discussion page is not the problem - 
certain editors "lack of perspective" is the problem.  You pissing off 
those editors is not going to change their "lack of perspective".

Jesse Weinstein