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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Apr 20 23:14:28 UTC 2006


Kelly Martin wrote:

>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.
>
Welcome to Animal Farm.

At this point we have nothing more than a guess that there is potential 
litigation.  That's a great foundation for sand castles.  Has anyone 
ever heard of verifiability?

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