[Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?

[Wily D]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Nicolas Guérin" <nguerin.zurich at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:34 PM
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?
>
>> Just that the candidate gives on his candidature page links to his blocked
>> sockpuppets, and nothing else.
>> So it is impossible to know if he's really activ on another project.
>>
>>   Guérin Nicolas
>>
>>
>> 2008/6/1 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> >  > I don't know of any of the candidacy requirements that would be
>>> >  > violated by any of that. I would hope people would take it into
>>> >  > account when voting, but if people want to vote for someone that's
>>> >  > been banned from a project, they're allowed to do so. One project
>>> >  > can't dictate whether or not someone can stand for the board of the
>>> >  > whole foundation, can they?
>>> >
>>> > No. Many users are banned on enwiki that are very welcome on other
>>> projects.
>>> >  An example is Poetlister, who until recently was banned from enwiki.
>>> > She
>>> is
>>> >  a bureaucrat on en.wikiquote.
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, that was a rhetorical question.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> He is, indeed, eligible to run.
>
> I'm not sure that we as an election committee would want to get involved in
> stating whether someone is a blocked or banned user: that seems dangerously
> close to advising someone how to vote, which we try very hard not to do - we
> do our best to remain totally neutral.
>
>
Indeed, if  the community really feels that Mr. Kohs is the best
candidate, we ought to let ourselves elect him.  If the community
feels he's unsuitable, or that someone else is better suited (and I
certainly believe the latter), then let them not elect him.

The community has lost enough influence on the board of late.  Let's
not snatch any more from them.

WilyD