> Looking more at this, it seems that Wales has been given "credit" for > exactly this intervention: > > "Wales has, in the past, instructed Wikimedia's system administrators to > implement software changes that constitute de facto Wikipedia policy > changes. For instance, in December 2005, in response to the Seigenthaler > incident, Wales removed the ability of unregistered users to create new > pages on the English-language Wikipedia. This change was proposed as an > "experiment", but has been in place ever since." > > We have Wales to "thank" for the absurd "Articles for Creation" process > (Is > that still around? I haven't checked in a long time.). Seems to me that > constitutes a "significant role in debates over inclusion deletion".
Together with the Arbitration Committee Jimbo initiated the Biographies of living persons policy. His involvement in deletion was with respect to pseudo-scientific physics theories. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
