At the same time, *Always leave something undone. **Give the author a chance.* *Build the web.* *Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.*
and *If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion.* On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Cool Hand Luke < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
