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I had been feeling the urge to edit WP again. My birthday is mid-August, and I looked in on WLM-US as a present to myself. Not much there so I looked on the NRHP project page, as it is a backbone for WML-US to build on.
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There were pointy edits and deletions, F-bombs and em-F-asis words, SHOUTing, rampant I-didn't-hear-that, back-biting talkpage edits, battle-worded edit summaries, all over WP by NRHP project members. I see the same accusations flying, the same actions being taken or avoided, the same mess by the same editors that there was back in November.
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The one thing I expect to see in relation to that "all-that" has not happened: no one has even tried to discuss any problems. No one has discussed the contentious edits/editors in a (neutrally-worded!) section of the project. No editor has said, "I do not understand why you made this edit. Will you please explain your reasoning to me?" on another editor's talk page. No editor has been told that there is a consensus and they should come talk about it. No one has posted to an uninvolved admin, or even AN, saying, "We cannot handle this without help. Help!" Someone on the project said, "This is why we can't have nice things" and proceeded to blame one editor. I blame them all. Every editor who has taken part in the dust-up has essentially shot themselves in their collective feet, as any dispute resolution process starts with showing where discussion about the problem has taken place. They have nothing to show for resolution, and plenty to show how they made it worse.
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I note that "all-that" is taking place only a couple of weeks before WLM starts up, and WLM has barely been mentioned on the NRHP project. WLM-US appears to be rather short of their goals for things to be done before 01 September (in fact, they appear short of goals, period). There will be chaos attendant to WLM playing catch-up right before start-up. WLM-US cannot escape the National Register, it is too large of a draw for photographers; therefore, WLM-US cannot escape the NRHP project, with all its chaos. I remember how I felt last winter, and I refuse to put myself anywhere near that state again, which means avoiding the NRHP project completely, which means avoiding WLM-US.
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Canada, though... I treated the border as a skipping rope in WLM '12. Perhaps this year I will just jump the border completely.
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Probably not.
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