Roger Davies has posted an excellent comment on the "civil disobedience" aspect of these events here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&diff=prev&oldid=339367826
I've seen much talk today of doing the right things the right way and doing the right things the wrong way. I suppose the lesson of history is that determining which is which is usually possible only with the advantage of considerable hindsight. Think of some examples: the barons at Runnymede, the Roundheads, George Washington et al, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the sailors on the Potemkin; the suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela.... The core of civil disobedience is the principle that people should do the right things the wrong way when trying to do them the right way failed or is not possible. And that's pretty close to the underlying principle of WP:IAR. *Roger Davies* *talk* 16:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC) This was only the beginning; it was precipitated by the pressure of repeated failed attempts to reach elusive consensus on the matter. This is not anarchy, but a brief transition point. The RFC shows the way forward. MZMcBride's summary deletion proposal does not have consensus and will not reign. The processes proposed by Jehochman and David Gerard, on the other hand, are doing very well. Under these proposals, there will be a review period for unsourced BLPs, but any tagged biography that does not become sourced must be scrapped. Cool Hand Luke _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
