On 3/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Delirium wrote:
- How is someone calling up the Wikimedia Foundation and getting a page
protected not going "over the head" of editors, and not acting in a "top-down manner"? Even if justified in some cases, it's clearly doing just that.
The same effect could be achieved by any knowledgeable person by popping into an irc channel and asking any of a large number of people to assist with a serious problem. If you, for example, protected a page with a short explanation on the talk page that you think there's a serious legal problem and asking people, as a courtesy, to leave the page protected until the Foundation legal team has had an opportunity to review the situation, then I would fully expect that to stick.
Are you withdrawing WP:OFFICE from those areas not involveing legal threats? If no the above defence fails.
-- geni