On 23/05/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
This new tone by your statements, and David, and especially Tony Sidaway's strident statements is that a lone admin or two can make immutable changes to the encyclopedia that others cannot supercede without a desysopalble wheel war, simply by invoking "BLP". *That's* new.
It's not new, as I've pointed out.
It all comes back to one of the things I asked David: why is Admin Bob's viewpoint of any more value than Admin Jim's, and why can't other admins simply collectively decide that one or both of them are wrong? By saying BLP under this new model, they can't. I say BLP, you all are shut down unless ArbCom says otherwise. *That's* new. It gives tremendous new authority and power to admins: "you cannot reverse me."
In practice this hardly ever happens. In the QZ thing it was arguably wheel-warring, but everyone calmed down and backed off to a large extent.
- d.