[WikiEN-l] Indefinite block and desysopping by User:Danny

[Kelly Martin]

On 4/20/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:

> * That nice hot-button word "unilaterally".  It wasn't more than a few
> months ago when the unwashed hordes were screaming it at Kelly herself.

There is a big difference between my unilaterally deleting a bunch of
rather unimportant userboxes and Erik reverting the protection of a
hot article implemented by Danny.  You will also note that I did not
wheel war with respect to any of the userboxes I deleted; I did not
redelete any of the ones that were speedily restored by various
admins, and the small handful which I did delete twice I redeleted
after discussion with the objectors to the original deletion.  I may
not have much respect for some of enwiki's arbitrary processes, for
the vast quantities of cruft that float around in enwiki, or for the
community that seems to exist more much for its own perpetuation than
for its purported purpose of writing an encyclopedia, but I have a
great deal of respect for the need of the Foundation to take
appropriate measures to protect its very real legal interests in the
face of potential litigation.  I tend to believe that the Foundation
is, at its core, more interested in being "an encyclopedia being
written by a community" than a "community which is writing an
encyclopedia".  I'm not so convinced that the same is true of the
Wikipedia community as a whole.

And, yes, I am somewhat more in the know on this issue than you are,
but that doesn't mean I have all of the pieces of the puzzle either. 
All rhetoric aside, not all admins on Wikipedia are equal; some of us
are clearly more bothered about this than others.

Kelly