WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
On 9/14/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
As it ever occurred to you that Carolyn herself may have preferred so ?
Certainly.
However, for a major entity such as the Wikimedia Foundation to lose it's Chief Operating Officer without making a formal announcement smacks of organizational immaturity. That this was not done, and that this is being *defended* smacks of reasons that the Foundation wants to keep hidden.
Perhaps a simple announcement saying, "On mm-dd-yyyy Carolyn Doran ceased to be an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation for personal reasons," would have been enough to address your claims of "organizational immaturity". I'm sure that those in power will keep that in mind for the future. Some people would still not be satisfied unless they received enough information to write an article for "The National Enquirer" about the matter, but it would show even greater "organizational immaturity" to engage in breaches of the personal privacy of former employees.
There will be occasions when serious irregularities surround the departure of an employee, but delving further into such claims requires more substance than speculation based solely on the absence of information. Would you really have been satisfied by "personal reasons?"
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