On 8/11/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
"Wikipedia users, especially administrators, will not permit a user under attack to be isolated, but will support them. This may include reverting harassing edits, protecting or deleting pages, blocking users, or taking other appropriate action."
That's it. That's the whole of it. That's why we will not permit Slim Virgin or anybody else to be attacked, inadvertently defamed or made to feel uncomfortable because of external allegations, by conspiracy theorist or otherwise, about her identity, through the medium of a wiki whose avowed intent is not this kind of nonsense, but the creation of a high quality free encyclopedia.
This is not Usenet, nor will it become the fifty-first state of Usenet. This is an encyclopedia.
In other words this cabal was just a bunch of people who independently decided they weren't going to let shit happen to another human being?
That's kinda disappointing. And boring. As boring as this whole thing has been.
I would like the next set of accusations, besmirchments, and flaming failures to connect two dots to make a line to have some substance.
KP