My main problem with the transwiki'ing thing is that Wikibooks has
considerably different rules, where the major contributors to a
specific "book" get more say in what can go in and what cannot, or
what they want it to look like.
I personally think that is downright antiwiki, but when I tried to get
involved I was met with stiff opposition from Gentgeen who is obsessed
about territorialism and the like, and said that the current antiwiki
policy had been decided by "community consensus".
Among other things decided on Wikibooks by "community consensus", at
least one addition to [[b:en:What Wikibooks is not]] was added by
"consensus" with the final poll results being 1-0, Gentgeen having
been the only one to vote for it. In addition, voting by Wikipedians
in matters such as VfD, VfU, RfA, and just about anything else is
completely disregarded by Gentgeen unless they are "regular"
contributors to Wikibooks, although notably he DOES count them when it
benefits his position.
The current policy on Wikibooks is tantamount to me saying on
Wikipedia "OK, I wrote this article, so since I'm the main
contributor, I have a large amount of control over what goes".
Mark
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:58:23 +0100, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I discovered today that recipes are now legally
deleted from the english
wikipedia where they are not welcome any more.
Still, I had the memory there was no clear agreement on doing so, and
for months, there was a sort of balance with removing all those of minor
dishes, while keeping those from typical ones.
When I tried to make a policy on the topic, clearly, there was no
agreement. Neither to keep, neither to delete. Mostly two factions.
Today, I realised all had been deleted. I restored one and was
immediately reverted by Gentgeen (of course, he is the one who deleted
them) and he pointed to me a policy on "what Wikipedia is not".
On this page, it is written that recipes should not be kept in
Wikipedia. So, now, Gentgeen has a argument to revert me, and possibly
even the right to block me if I restore a recipe.
My question :
* why is it so that rules are written in the big book (what wikipedia is
not) which makes reference, while these rules are not widely agreed on
the project ? If not agreed but by a couple of bold people, should they
be used to revert the others ?
I realised the recipes were not welcome any more at all today, because a
couple of french people wish to delete them as well on the french
wikipedia. And one of their arguments is that the english wikipedia
decided to delete them (and so, they must be right !).
I removed the rule as is now, and asked the editor who initially added
it to show me where this was supported initially.
Ant
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