On 3/12/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
- Calling the Foundation to complain about Wikipedia is not an
officially recognized way to change content on Wikipedia.
- Calls to the Foundation complaining about Wikipedia content have led to
a) edits to Wikipedia by Foundation staff b) Blanking of Wikipedia articles by Foundation staff c) Protection of Wikipedia articles by Foundation staff d) Various combinations of the above
- Actions listed above by Foundation staff are sometimes marked by
WP:OFFICE and any interference with such actions by any editor can lead to revokation of editing/sysop rights.
If that is above, it seems like a reasonable interpretation of the above is that people can go over the head of editors by taking things to the Wikimedia Foundation, which then deals with them in a top-down manner, with some articles having different "de facto" policies than other articles. That's obviously an *interpretation*, but I have trouble seeing how it's false.
Forgot to add the connection between the above points and the "some articles having different policies" -- it's because appealing to the Foundation is not official policy, but is an unwritten and semi-secret method for getting changes to happen, only those who know about that avenue (or figure it out) get to use it -- creating the effective policy difference.