User:Mujinga/essays/PDH

Hi everybody and welcome back to the anarchist archives discussion page. Well the debate we thought last time was winding down has suddenly got going with some full moon fireworks and some fiery accusations being thrown around. But before we get to that, let's go through a quick flashback scene so we are all on the same page:

We begin 150419 with a mystery: Why have Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme (CIRA) and Kate Sharpley Library suddenly been merged to the new Anarchist archives? The information previously on the pages has been lost, there are hidden comments on the text, what's the crack?
Two weeks later there's no reply, so a tidyup was initiated, the 'work in progress' tag was deleted as per instructions if nothing happens, a 'clean up' tag was left and questions asked elsewhere.
A response asks What's the issue? and comments that "the sourcing remains abysmal" on the two other articles
Someone else helpfully intervenes to say I don't know anything about the history of this article, but I..
Response to 4: well if you don't check the diffs then we can't really discuss and Response to 3: more sources have been added
A second request for the plan for the article is made
The article is wikified into sections and the cleanup tag is left because of the ungainly references / bibliography / further reading
The same person repeats that sourcing of those [other] pages does remain abysmal
It is gently pointed out 'abysmal' is a rather strong and possibly inappropriate word to be throwing around. The initial point is restated, namely that it's kinda weird to leave hidden notes on the article like "pick up here" back and then refuse to state what the plan was so other editors could collaborate
The (admittedly incomprehensible) answer comes back that the sources for CIRA are known by the editor because they added them... but to this page, not the CIRa page, which has ... "abysmal" sources

That's where we are at.. is it worth pointing out the sources could be added to CIRA article and then everyone can get on with their lives?