Hoi,
John it was documented on the Administrators noticeboard. The "discussion"
ran for over two weeks. I feel no need to identify the admin, he is
typically the kind of person I greatly admire. If anything I object to the
way admins do not take responsibility for what happens. If anything the way
this whole controversy transpired proves how little of a community we are.
I have started and added a few items.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 31 July 2016 at 14:28, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Which items, which admin, etc.
A little context would help.
If the items were appropriate, wait for the community to agree with you
before recreating them.
On 31 Jul 2016 17:50, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi.
Many items were created for Wikimania talks. They were created because
Wikimania talks represent the best practices of the Wikimedia projects. All
these talks were selected in a process to bring out the best our movement
has to offer in the many years Wikimania was held. All the persons who gave
these presentation are known by either their nick or their name as they
themselves identified them at the time of offering the presentation for
consideration/
For whatever reasons a Wikidata admin removed these items without any
discussion. In the discussion that followed other people presented the
arguments why there are no valid arguments for this deletion. A request was
made repeatedly to undelete the items involved.
Given the current state of affair there is little option but to recreate
these items. It must be noted that the current situation is problematic on
many levels. Among them it became clear that admins do as they wish and are
not held accountable for their actions. The only thing asked is for the
undeletion of items and some sober thought on what may be expected of a
Wikidata admin.
Thanks,
GerardM
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