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| QED. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 17:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC) | QED. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 17:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC) | ||
| :Yeah. 1 one-year Arbcom ban + 1 one-year Arbcom ban + banned from FA of the day = troll. QED. --] (]) 18:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC) | :Yeah. 1 one-year Arbcom ban + 1 one-year Arbcom ban + banned from FA of the day = troll. QED. --] (]) 18:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC) | ||
| ::The main concern is not the actual box but the amount of new editors that get bitten over this. We have had countless new editors inquire at the various help desk(s) as to why they cant edit theses pages without asking permission from the project frist. Reverting editions multiple times with edit summaries that say nothing but link to ] are confusing to new editors and gives the impression there edits are not welcomed. A proper essay that is inline with the community policy, that is not contradictory and does not tell editors they must seek consensus from the project before editing a particular article may help avoid so many conflicts. Hard to recruit new editors to any project if there first encounter is a negative one. ] (]) 19:34, 22 March 2013 (UTC) | |||
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The RfC linked to above, called for by members of WikiProject Composers, concluded that:
WikiProjects are free to publish guidelines and recommendations but do not have the authority to override a local consensus on the talk page of an article.
Infoboxes are not to be added nor removed systematically from articles. Such actions would be considered disruptive.
Yet members of the project, including some interviewed above, persist in removing infoboxes from articles about composers on sight, and without debate, giving WP:COMPOSERS as a justification. We thus have a small number of editors, operating as a team, to override wider community consensus. Their response to this being pointed out often comprises ad hominem attacks; and article talk page debates are often the subject of their partisan canvassing. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:39, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- We also have a small number of editors, operating as a team, who persist on adding infoboxes to articles on sight, and without debate, overriding wider consensus. They (or, rather, one of them in particular) exhibit a lack of courtesy and communication skill in debates. What's your point? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:42, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, there's an infobox tag-team of about half a dozen users who think they represent the "community". Mabbett's a notorious troll. He's been banned twice, each time for a year, by ArbCom. Ironically, I've been told it was only the limitations of the computer software which meant that his second ban wasn't permanent. Now we have to put up with his obnoxious POV-pushing again and again all over Misplaced Pages. --Folantin (talk) 15:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately. Toccata quarta (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, there's an infobox tag-team of about half a dozen users who think they represent the "community". Mabbett's a notorious troll. He's been banned twice, each time for a year, by ArbCom. Ironically, I've been told it was only the limitations of the computer software which meant that his second ban wasn't permanent. Now we have to put up with his obnoxious POV-pushing again and again all over Misplaced Pages. --Folantin (talk) 15:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
QED. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah. 1 one-year Arbcom ban + 1 one-year Arbcom ban + banned from FA of the day = troll. QED. --Folantin (talk) 18:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- The main concern is not the actual box but the amount of new editors that get bitten over this. We have had countless new editors inquire at the various help desk(s) as to why they cant edit theses pages without asking permission from the project frist. Reverting editions multiple times with edit summaries that say nothing but link to WP:COMPOSERS are confusing to new editors and gives the impression there edits are not welcomed. A proper essay that is inline with the community policy, that is not contradictory and does not tell editors they must seek consensus from the project before editing a particular article may help avoid so many conflicts. Hard to recruit new editors to any project if there first encounter is a negative one. Moxy (talk) 19:34, 22 March 2013 (UTC)