On 28/08/07, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
George Herbert schrieb:
Accountability in some situations is "we trust Arbcom and Jimbo, who we find to be honorable trustworthy people and who we expect to do the right thing for Wikipedia, and explain to the degree possible afterwards".
I don't think so.
Public's trust rests upon authorities being openly accountable. If any authority refuses to disclose information to the public, they are stripping the public of its ability to hold them accountable, which will as likely as not result in a loss of public trust. However, it is the authorities that first display a lack of trust in the public.
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Raphael
They also have access to personal information which is not theirs to reveal.
Besides, there is more than one type of accountability.