On Nov 29, 2007 4:04 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 3:55 PM, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 3:51 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 3:45 PM, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 3:17 PM, Relata Refero refero.relata@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 4:14 PM, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
And this after it has been stated unequivocally that no such thing happened. Alec has also been front and center in making other outrageous claims and demands; for example, he seems to believe that if a Wikipedia administrator mentions anything about Wikipedia in a private e-mail, then it is his right to see it (see diff provided above).
Not 'anything about Wikipedia'. If an adminstrator saw that laughable evidence and believed it was grounds for a block, Alec would want to know why. So would a lot of people.
You don't seem to be reading what Alec actually said. He said "Yeah, if someone's an administrator discussing Wikipedia business, the 100% _are_ the business of Arbcom and the community."
"Wikipedia business" <> "anything about Wikipedia"
What, in your mind, would the difference be?
Wikipedia business is the business of Wikipedia. In the context of "an administrator discussing Wikipedia business", it'd be a discussion of who to block, or what pages to protect, or something like that. "Anything about Wikipedia" would include that and anything else related to Wikipedia. If I email my friend and say "Wikipedia is the greatest site ever", that'd be "about Wikipedia", but it wouldn't be "Wikipedia business".
What about if an admin e-mailed another Wikipedian and said "Account X is new but looks suspiciously familiar with Wikipedia process"; would the Wikipedia community have a *right* to see that e-mail? How about if a Wikipedia admin e-mailed another Wikipedian and said "Look at page X, it looks like some POV-warriors have really gone to work on it". That's also public property?
Mind you, your own post facto re-interpretation of Alec's demands are kind of moot, considering he was insisting he needed to see the "full content of the emails" sent to both lists. That, in fact, was the context in which he insisted that every single e-mail was "Wikipedia business".