On 6/15/07, Gracenotes wikigracenotes@gmail.com wrote:
Well, thank goodness rules are not set in stone. Policies *should* be ignored if there is good reason to do so, and there appears to be good reason here: that a dedicated contributor should be become an admin when it will benefit the project, and that she needs to use TOR for some reason, which I do not doubt is an appropriate use (otherwise she would not use it).
Although you have not yet, please don't claim that many current opposes have to do with anything other than the TOR issue. Others refer to a moment of justifiable indignation caused by a civil form of mud-slinging. I don't care if the mud is policy; email was clearly the more appropriate route here (exhibiting greater judgment and empathy).
As an addendum to that, several of your other concerns have to do with solving an overall rare *social* problem with a *technical* solution. This has nothing to do with the candidate, but the issue of open proxies in general, and of the policy (could you believe that people disagreed with NPOV when Wikipedia started? with the GFDL now? with notability?).