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

Mon Jun 5 02:06:15 UTC 2006

On 6/4/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> 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.
>

Your solution is to simply piss them off, which eventually gets you RfC'ed
and/or drives them away.

Other editors approach porblems of this ilk with discussions, friendly
requests on talk pages, new policy proposals.  And only resort to nuclear
efforts for serious and sustained crisis situations.

It doesn't matter if the problem is their signatures.  You need to treat
them better.  And that's your problem, not theirs.

-- 
-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com / george.herbert at gmail.com