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

Mon Jun 5 12:52:11 UTC 2006

On 6/5/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:12:18 -0700, you 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.  Playing well with others is more important now.
>
> Up to a point, I'd say.  As far as I can tell Tony's beef with
> "process wonks" is that the slavish following of rules has come to
> replace building a great encyclopaedia as the primary goal.

No.  So far as I'm aware most of the actual decision-making is made in
a manner that would drive a serious process enthusiast to distraction
if he was aware of it.  This is not a bad thing.  I see little or no
evidence to support the claim that Wikipedia is yet anything
resembling a process-bound institution.  Process-building is of course
necessary so those who work on that aspect of the encyclopedia are
doing as much to build the encyclopedia as those who, through normal
everyday good decision-making, smash unnecessary and onerous process.
We have an equilibrium and a fairly healthy one, and this is how it
should be.