On Sunday 02 March 2008 19:20, David Gerard wrote:
On 03/03/2008, Kurt Maxwell Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com> wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008 18:56, David Gerard
wrote:
The arbcom is quite happy to remove the admin bit
from *bad* admins as
needed, sometimes in a sudden midnight swoop.
Admins are servants of the community, not the Arbitrary Committee; thus,
de-adminning is properly a community decision.
And the arbcom is the elected power of last resort in en:wp
Hardly.
Created not by community consensus but by the dictate of one user, who still
maintains final control over its makeup.
Sure, that one user is the founder of the project. As you're well aware, I'm
an Objectivist; I recognize that the WMF has every moral right to do what it
pleases with Wikipedia. That doesn't mean it *should*, or that I'm obligated
to *like it*. If Jimbo says this is a community project, then, on a personal
level, I'm going to hold him to it. He shouldn't consider himself anything
special.
No, I'm not going to sue him or the Foundation for exercising its natural
inherent rights over the property it controls. But while these people have
the right to be hypocrites with their own property, it's still wrong, and I'm
going to do whatever I can, non-coercively, to get them to stop.
--
Kurt Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com>