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Revision as of 08:57, 14 March 2006 by Polarscribe (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)In the interests of maintaining clarity on the vote page, I'd like to request that the participants voluntarily move their debates, rants, flame wars and ad hominem attacks to this page. --HK 15:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
You may move any comments I've made to this page at your own pleasure. I can not speak for the others. Thanks. --Northmeister 21:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
The outcome of this process
It is more than a little dishonest to say that this article was speedily kept; when the article is stripped down to two sentences and renamed, it has been deleted for all intents and purposes. Ironically, this is certainly one instance in which Misplaced Pages may be seen as a gatekeeping organization. However, Misplaced Pages was in the process of gaining that reputation long before this particular controversy arose. --HK 07:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
To go about things the wrong way and then to claim conspiracy is a bit extreme. See about finding reliable sources about where foundations give their money, and who gets the money and add it to the articles on the foundations and recipients, as I said. If you don't like the WP policies, then involve yourself in the process of rewriting them, as I said. Your actions in this matter made your prophecies self-fulfilling IMO. Esquizombi 07:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- The article as it stood was nonsensical, as it purported to claim that the entire meaning of "gatekeeper" was centered around one specific "conspiracy-theory" Web site claiming that leftists are tools of the CIA. The article spent far too much time dwelling on this one aspect, down to listing dozens of alleged "gatekeepers" based on a conspiracy-theory Web site. You are free to re-add sourced commentary of that particular theory as illustration of one alleged instance of gatekeeping, but in a fashion that does not overwhelm or dominate an article about a broader concept. FCYTravis 08:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)