On 13 June 2001, at 14:49, Dermot McNally wrote: > > So I ask any interested parties and Richard: please respond with a > > definition of what constitutes "news" and/or some reasoning that it is "one > > person's hobbyhorse", otherwise I will revert you back. Also if you want to > > raise awareness of the poll, I would appreciate some support here! ;) > > It was put very succinctly by somebody earlier - paraphrasing, you > know something is news if it's important enough that somebody other > than the person who did it thinks it's news. In a similar vein, > Wikipedia takes a dim view of people writing an article about > themselves.
IMHO an open discussion on the future of OSM and it's governance is definitely newsworthy and should definitely be somewhere that is prominent enough for as many people/mappers as possible to engage with. On that basis the front page seems a very appropriate place for this. Adam
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