Shit, I messed up the quoting in that post. Shebs was saying that
stuff himself, not quoting Gray.
On 8/1/07, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/1/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
But asking valuable editors to quit in response to
outsiders going after them is completely the wrong way to go about it -
you may not like the word "appeasement", but what else would you call
it? You're giving the attackers what they want, at the expense of the
victims. Now that you're featured on WR, you're going to be under
scrutiny yourself - are you willing to quit and abandon all your WP work
when they start attacking you? And no, coming back under another name
won't help, they are always ready to make sockpuppet accusations.
You really should go take a look at WR, and see the malevolence for
yourself.
Wikipedia Review is not monolithic, of course, any more than Wikipedia
is -- you're making the same mistakes that people made about Wikipedia
for years. Some people on WR are completely insane; others are just
deeply misguided and paranoid; a few are rather sensible. There is no
cabal.
Anyway, I very much doubt WR would be able to identify a random new
editor who happens to be the former slimvirgin. I don't know much
about S.V., but if she can't get anything at all done as an ordinary
editor, then perhaps we need to give ordinary editors more powers.
--
Ben Yates
Wikipedia blog -
http://wikip.blogspot.com