On 4/20/07, Cascadia cascadia@privatenoc.com wrote:
"Tony Sidaway" tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote in message news:bf0d8ee70704200417s6e055daeh26399aa39211a714@mail.gmail.com...
If these people truthfully use anonymity to protect themselves from action by Brandt, why is their principal target Jimbo Wales?
Well... let's see. Jimbo Wales made the decision to unblock Daniel Brandt. The whole discussion is whether or not he had the authority to do that. I think that accurately describes the situation.
Yes, if I look at it from that angle I suppose the inflammatory statements can be read as strong expression of genuinely held opinion. Admittedly it was only yesterday that anyone ever seriously expressed doubt that Wikipedia administrators possess authority to unblock blocked editors. But it is *just* plausible that a number of editors, who have been made administrators despite their ignorance, simultaneously entertained this doubt.