[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[Cool Hand Luke]

Roger Davies has posted an excellent comment on the "civil disobedience"
aspect of these events here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&diff=prev&oldid=339367826

I've seen much talk today of doing the right things the right way and doing
the right things the wrong way. I suppose the lesson of history is that
determining which is which is usually possible only with the advantage of
considerable hindsight. Think of some examples: the barons at Runnymede, the
Roundheads, George Washington et al, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the sailors on
the Potemkin; the suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther
King, Nelson Mandela.... The core of civil disobedience is the principle
that people should do the right things the wrong way when trying to do them
the right way failed or is not possible. And that's pretty close to the
underlying principle of WP:IAR.  *Roger Davies* *talk* 16:39, 22 January
2010 (UTC)

This was only the beginning; it was precipitated by the pressure of repeated
failed attempts to reach elusive consensus on the matter.  This is not
anarchy, but a brief transition point.  The RFC shows the way forward.
MZMcBride's summary deletion proposal does not have consensus and will not
reign.  The  processes proposed by Jehochman and David Gerard, on the other
hand, are doing very well.  Under these proposals, there will be a review
period for unsourced BLPs, but any tagged biography that does not become
sourced must be scrapped.

Cool Hand Luke