Clearly we overstepped our bounds... We will be careful to not issue such sweeping judgments in the future. As to publishing this decision on all Wikipedias... Please tell us if he makes trouble over in France.
Fred
From: Anthere anthere8@yahoo.com Reply-To: anthere8@yahoo.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:57:00 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration: Case of Theresa Knott and Mr. Natural Health
Something suddenly spring to my mind...
What do you mean all wikimedia wikis ? When was it decided that the english arbitration committee would decide who is allowed to edit or not to edit on another language wikipedia ? How do you plan to tell other languages of your decisions ? How do you plan to inforce us to obey the english committee decisions ? What does happen if say...Lir was writing french, and french people decided to ban him...would you all accept that naturally our decision to ban him is necessarily a decision that all wikipedias immediately have to respect ? What about local rights ?
Of course, you may argue that the committee was chosen by Jimbo, and that as such, it takes decisions over all wikipedias...but then...why would only the english have this right ? And again, how do you plan to communicate (I saw no communication on the matter) and to inforce this decision of you ?