[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 11/13/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>geni wrote:
>>
>>>On 11/12/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Why?
>>>
>>>
>>>1.) It looks bad.
>>>2.) We haven't exusted the option of not doing it (there are 4 other
>>>people on the list who haven't caused such high tension situations
>>>lately)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>To quote David Gerard:
>>
>>On Wikipedia, the reward for a job well done is another three jobs.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Geni seems to be using this thread as a vehicle to snipe at someone he
> doesn't like, and whom he blames for the recent high profile
> announcement (since retracted) by another editor that he intended to
> leave the wiki.  This thread isn't the place.
> 

To be fair, geni isn't the only one to have used a Wikimedia mailing
list for soapboxing. Just about everyone who has been distressed at
something has done likewise, myself included.

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