No, you should not shrug your shoulders, but you should also not get into a tizzy over predictable phenomena. If you think there "ought to be a rule", please go and make one to the effect that rules are to uniformly applied, and so on although that is already part of the unwritten rules under which the Arbitration Committee proceeds. We'll enforce it best we can, but remember the old Russian proverb: "Laws are like spiderwebs, they catch flies, not bumblebees."
I fear I'm breaking a rule now, "Don't feed the trolls."
Fred
From: nas ral jewishneoconipod@gmail.com Reply-To: nas ral jewishneoconipod@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:07:02 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Query admin powers
So we should just shrug our shoulders when we witness "informal deviation and transgressions especially by high status individuals"?
Are you serious with this stuff? And so the humble editor is trampled on cuz he ainted got friends in high places? Unbelievable.
Policy should be applied, and seen to be applied, fairly and evenly, no matter what "informal status" a person might have. I thought an arbitrator would agree to that!
Fred wants the so-called "laws of sociology" to overrule wikipedia policy. Is this an offical ArbCom line?
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:47:34 -0700, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
All formal organizations and their rules are subject to informal deviation and transgressions especially by high status individuals. We have not outlawed the laws of sociology just by creating a cool website.
Fred