Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread Andrew Hain
Andy Allan writes: > > This mailing list appears to be having some sort of immune-response > over-reaction. We don't like mechanical edits in general. Fine. > Therefore every mechanical edit must be fought against, to the bitter > end. That's an over-reaction. > > No, that can't work any more.

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Symonds
Andy, you make some excellent points. It would be interesting to know how decisions can be made - it seems the mailing list is no longer representative of editors, and neither is the wiki Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread Brian Prangle
Hooray for Andy Allan - some commonsense! On 18 December 2014 at 13:36, Andy Allan wrote: > > On 18 December 2014 at 11:30, SK53 wrote: > > I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. > > I personally feel that the opposition to Matthijs' work is becoming > farcical. After setting

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread Stuart Reynolds
+1 Regards, Stuart > On 18 Dec 2014, at 13:36, Andy Allan wrote: > > On 18 December 2014 at 11:30, SK53 wrote: >> I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. > > I personally feel that the opposition to Matthijs' work is becoming > farcical. After setting up dozens of hoops for

Re: [Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread Andy Allan
On 18 December 2014 at 11:30, SK53 wrote: > I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. I personally feel that the opposition to Matthijs' work is becoming farcical. After setting up dozens of hoops for him to jump through, which he has done, and then because he managed that creati

[Talk-GB] Discussion of Mechanical Edits

2014-12-18 Thread SK53
I personally feel the current discussion is now thrashing. We are hearing repeats of the same things over again, and appear to now be bikeshedding import and mechanical edit policies. No-one seems to dispute that we do not have a consensus, Can we leave it at that "we agree to disagree". It is usu