Geofferybard
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I am soliciting your input please!
editI am attempting a Dispute resolution at Wikinews:Dispute resolution/Brian McNeil and Mattisse and I am soliciting your input as to the problem. I urge you to give feedback. Soliciting input is the next step in the Dispute resolution process. Please do! Regards, Mattisse (talk) 00:04, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
- In all honesty, I thought that Brian basically runs the joint and that he probably created wikinews or inherited the keys to the kingdom from whoever set this website up. I scanned some of the dispute resolution page and IMO there is no resolution if the issue is personalized and made into a dualistic win/lose game.
I found Brian to be motivated by a sincere desire to make Wikinews into a respected journalistic website and clearly intending to make his mark in journalistic history. The bottom line is you probably need to take a deep breath, realize that Brian is not going to apologize, publicly, and take some time off, write for some other entity, and at some later point decide whether you would be willing to come back and let by gones be by gones. You, such as I suppose I myself at this point am doing, will be in a position to make your point by going on strike for a limited time period. Then, when you return, it would be a clean start.
So, you asked, that's my opinion. Geofferybard (talk) 20:41, 6 May 2011 (UTC)