[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

[Peter Ansell]

On 5/29/06, Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> The community giveth, and the community taketh away -- but it taketh
> away under the auspices of proper consideration by the arbitration
> committee, not by having unpopular admins strung up by a baying lynchmob.
>

The community has no power to take away, other admins are the only
ones who have any power to take away rights, and the threat of being
told not to wheel war seems to be stopping admins from making hard
decisions about other admins.

Peter Ansell