On 5/28/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 28 May 2007 at 14:05:34 +0000, "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up. Bottom line, this guy doesn't get it. How hurtful external attacks can be to Wikipedia users. He has minimal commitment to taking effective action, maximum commitment to dissimulation.
I'm disappointed that you've joined the enraged mob with torches that's abusing Gracenotes' RfA because he insists on a thoughtful, nuanced approach to "bad site" linking instead of war-on-drugs-style zero tolerance. It's especially disappointing given that some of your own past writings on the topic have seemed to advocate the same sort of carefully considerate, non-knee-jerk approach that you're saying he "doesn't get it" for having himself.
But, then, I've also developed some doubts about your own judgment given your activity on this list last week, when you developed out of whole cloth an entirely bizarre interpretation of [[WP:BLP]] that held that this policy could be used as a Harry-Potter-esque magical incantation by any admin in order to take unilateral action that would not be permitted to be questioned, debated, reversed, or subjected to any sort of process or consensus save the unlikely possibility of a full-blown ArbCom case. The fact that nothing in the actual wording of the policy itself even hinted at this interpretation didn't faze you one bit, though you later backed down after a storm of controversy here.
I guess if you're willing to hand all admins such absolute, nearly unreviewable power, then it would indeed follow that you then should insist on imposing political litmus tests on admin candidates to make sure that this power is only given to the ones who are politically correct.
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