At 10:45 AM 3/7/2004 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
The issue of the actual wording of DNA's intro paragraph is, as you suggest, a fairly trivial one. The _real_ problem IMO is that 168... has been using his abilities as an admin to force the intro paragraph to be exactly the way he prefers it, regardless of how any discussion on talk: may be going. This is terrible behavior for an admin, especially over such an otherwise trivial matter.
Can you tell me what you mean by "using his abilities as an admin"?
Has he been banning people? Installing his version and then protecting the page (repeatedly, I mean, a one-time failing would be bad, but hardly worthy of this kind of brouhaha)? Threatening to ban people for changing it?
Protecting "his" version of the page, this most recent time and also back around February 13 the previous time this problem arose. Also, back in the February incident, he got into a delete/undelete war over the request-for-comment page where this was being discussed; this was the reason for his emergency de-sysopping at the time.
I'm in total agreement with you that the problem isn't the wording of the paragraph, but there's some sort of behavioral anomaly going on here, perhaps on both sides?
I've apparently become "involved" now so my perspective may be considered biased.