Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com Tue Nov 27 18:02:59 UTC 2007
But to confirm what Matthew Brown has said: there were no in-depth deliberations about !! on the cyberstalking mailing list that led to his blocking. (Indeed, if there had been, he would not have been blocked!)
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Exactly right! Any group of experienced editors studying those diffs would have seen that !! appeared to be someone known to Giano and the other editors he interacted with. It can be deduced from that fact alone that the diffs were not discussed by the editors on the cyberstalking mailing list. What happened is that the blocking admin made a mistake, undid it, and apologized. These things happen to most active admins at some point. The more a person contributes to the project, the more likely they are to make mistakes. Please bear that in mind when you're judging people.
Sarah