Jimmy Wales wrote:
Delirium wrote:
I didn't say anything quite that extreme, and
contrary to Jimbo's
assumption, I'm not particularly angry about it either. I'm just
worried that the current policy of letting some people go "over the
head" of editors by taking things to the Wikimedia Foundation, which
then deals with them in a top-down manner, will introduce systemic bias
into the encyclopedia.
Current policy does not let anyone go "over the head" of editors and the
Wikimedia Foundation does not deal with them in a "top-down manner".
This leads to some articles having different
policies
than other articles,
This is false.
Come on Jimbo, you're better than this. The email quoted above just
consists of "ur wrong", with no suggestions as to why. I must confess
to being as confused as The Cunctator as to what you mean by such
blatantly counterfactual assertions.
1) How is someone calling up the Wikimedia Foundation and getting a page
protected not going "over the head" of editors, and not acting in a
"top-down manner"? Even if justified in some cases, it's clearly doing
just that.
2) You have explicitly stated that we ought to treat articles on living
people in a different manner than other articles. Isn't that "some
articles having different policies than other articles"?
-Mark