On 12/04/11 1:10 PM, Will Beback wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sidaway<tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 >> >> Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about >> the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've >> gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to >> interact--the wiki, in other words--isn't really very fit for the >> purpose. >> >> Wikis are _supposed_ to invite contributions, but here we seem to have >> built a big maze that only frustrates people who in good faith want to >> help us to make it better. > In this case, Sullivan wasn't a reader. He was a would-be editor trying to > maintain an article about a barely notable SEO expert. > > I've noticed that a lot of critics of Wikipedia began by trying to promote > some non-notable cause only to be rebuffed. >
Do we get anywhere when we approach a problem with such an attitude of defensiveness? Instead of trying to figure out why this happens so often, this response merely seeks to justify the status quo. Whether somebody is notable depends entirely on one's Point of View, yet the entire premise of the argument is the subject's notability. How is the subject any less notable than [[Cy Vorhees]]? Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
