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 The sentiment is indeed not original; it was one of the first things I saw on talk around here (ex-arb, British, David X I think). I assumed you were deliberately retaking the saying back. Certainly As I noted in on offsite venue at the time, ""We must do something, and this is something, therefore we must do it."" The state of governance on Wikipedia is such that any kind of structure is welcome, is most naturally interpreted as you commending the Wikipedia:Advisory Council on Project Development as desirable on the grounds that it is something. How else can ""any kind of structure is welcome"" be interpreted? If you intended this to mean something different, I think you should rephrase it. At best it is highly ambiguous, at worst wrong   "