[Foundation-l] WMF, and implications of non-discrimination on local projects?

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 16:38:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>wrote:

> on 9/26/08 11:36 AM, Pharos at pharosofalexandria at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>> It's a community thing. On en.wikibooks, our bureaucrats simply won't
> >>> pay attention to irrational and poorly supported votes. Bureaucrats
> >>> are able to use their judgement to consider the quality of votes above
> >>> the sheer quantity of them.
> >>
> >> In theory enwiki is the same. It doesn't really matter, anyway -
> >> presumably it's just one vote, enwiki RFAs have high enough turnout
> >> that one vote is rarely going to make much difference.
> >
> > Obviously no sane Bureaucrat is going to count a vote that says,
> > "Opppose- we shouldn't let in any sysops who can't RSVP with St Peter
> > and the Heavenly Choir for that great Wikimania in the sky".
> >
> > I think this is a non-issue.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pharos
> >
> At last sanity prevails!
>
> (Although I would be interested in talking with a person who would base
> their vote on a totally non-religious issue, on strictly religious grounds.
> I can't help it, I was born curious :-))
>
> Marc
>
>
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You'd probably enjoy talking to those who believe global warming is just
God hugging us closer.

-Chad



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