[WikiEN-l] Brandt unblocked by Jimbo - community support?

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Slim Virgin [mailto:slimvirgin at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 04:30 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brandt unblocked by Jimbo - community support?
>
>On 4/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/19/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> >
>> > > I disagree that there is any community consensus here.
>> >
>> > Wow.  Okay.  what do you call the massive discussion, then?
>>
>> Seriously, Jeff, can you look at the conflicting opinions being
>> expressed by Wikipedians who hold one another in mutual regard, and
>> proclaim a consensus on this issue?
>>
>Very few people have posted here or on Wikipedia in support of the
>unblock. There seems to be an overwhelming consensus against it --
>including Brandt himself!

What I support is not unblocking, but negotiating with him, regarding all issues, including his outing activities. Unblocking, note he has not edited, is only a means to that end. Listening respectfully to his issues regarding his article may be productive regarding all the issues which surround such biographies.

Fred