There is a fundamental difference between our inefficient and sometimes unsuccessful attempts to do things right, and their deliberate attempts to do things wrong.
And there is also a difference, though a smaller one, between an individual's misguided attempt to fix what he perceives as injustice towards themselves, and a commercial concern's deliberate attempt to violate or evade for money what they must know are our rules . Nobody can perceive whitewashing as proper, though they may think it something they can get away with. And we also need to realize that the more we stop improper efforts, the more people trying to make them will complain. Avoiding complaints is not our measure of success; avoiding justified complaints is. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 12 November 2012 16:30, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: >> Ken Arromdee wrote: >>> When they say that Wikipedia's proces for fixing articles is >>> "opaque, time-consuming and cumbersome", they are *correct*. >> >> Well, yeah, but. Right (sorta) conclusion, wrong reason. >> >> It can always be improved, but I don't think our "process" for >> fixing articles is *that* bad. And, in any case, it wasn't at >> all so cumbersome that it kept Finsbury from whitewashing the >> article! > > The real point, surely, is whether the word "needlessly" can be > shoehorned in front of "cumbersome". > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
