On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Wily D wrote:
> Indeed, just yesterday Poetlister was unblocked on en.wikipedia, at
> least partly based on her long history of good conduct at Wikiquote.
> One of the canonical ways to get unbanned is to go to another project
> and behave.
For the record, Poetlister had begun to accumulated her good conduct
*before* her banning from English Wikipedia editing.
Of course, getting out of the heat, and proving your
good faith
elsewhere separates them from the really harmful people. The regulars
on other projects will be more inclined to treat the person more
objectively. I have encountered Poetlister on Wikisource, and had a
sharp difference of opinion with her, but even though I disagreed with
her, I had no reason to question her motives. The learning curve for
people with strong opinions is not an easy one, and those who are too
willing to find fault with them would do better putting a small effort
into searching for common ground.
Your opinion is largely overlapped with mine. She has a distinct
character; strong and keen sense and preferences, some strong opinion
and no person easily to be persuaded. I disagree with her on some
points and have no expectations those differences may be dissolved
near soon. It doesn't however hinder our cooperations. On the other
things, perhaps more than disagreed ones, we agree happily and enjoy
working together.
And she is so integrated as admin that she doesn't mind performing the
actions she as individual opposes. She keeps articles she had voted
for deletion and deleted the one she had voted for keeping, if it was
the community consensus. And we English Wikiquotians are sure there
was no problematic/puppet-smelling votes when she was the minority in
her opinion.
If Poetlister's sin was with the use of
sockpuppets did anybody begin by
approaching her in a respectful manner about this serious sin?
I don't know if someone approached her, but I am not sure if it is
necessary right now. Poetlister herself has denied to be someone's
sock, I heard, and she as Wikiquotian is known the editor far from
sockpupetting. Now English Wikipedia Arbcom says she agreed not to use
open proxies anymore. We need much further than those things?
Cheers,
Ec
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