Wikipedia has no management style because there are no managers. We
should not be a bureaucracy in any sense of the word.
Right.
That is the point of WP:BURO. It's not that We are a bureaucracy, but
if you cut some corners we'll look the other way. That's not what it
says at all.
There are 2 things wrong with this discussion.
1) someone replied to the proposal:
Isn't it time to be honest with ourselves ...
Perhaps next time, consider the phrase: It only takes one (1) reply,
to turn a rant (1) into an argument (2).
2) That page, [[WP:NOT]], is an abstraction of the
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ryan Delaney wrote:
That's the point made in the OP. Apoc2400 thinks that, since the
reality is that Wikipedia has become greatly bureaucratized (he and I
think that's a bad thing, you think it's a
Ryan Delaney wrote:
That's the point made in the OP. Apoc2400 thinks that, since the
reality is that Wikipedia has become greatly bureaucratized (he and I
think that's a bad thing, you think it's a good thing, but that's
beside the point) then we should stop kidding ourselves and get rid
Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia has no management style because there are no managers. We should
not be a bureaucracy in any sense of the word.
That is the point of WP:BURO. It's not that We are a bureaucracy, but if
you cut some corners we'll look the other way. That's
Ryan Delaney wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Apoc 2400 wrote:
Isn't it time to be honest with ourselves and nominate
Wikipedia is not a
bureaucracy for deletion?
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ryan Delaney wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Apoc 2400 wrote:
Isn't it time to
Checking the Village Pump today I discovered
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#autoconfirmed_for_unassisted_article_creation
This is an ingenious new way of getting rid of newcomers while officially
welcoming them to contribute. A newcomer who wants to create a
