jayjg wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 3:00 AM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
The problem came when the private discussion was used to support direct public actions while still being kept strictly private. If someone says "I have evidence this is a sock puppet of a disruptive user," I want to know what that evidence is before anything remotely like a ban is considered. If they say "a bunch of other editors support me on this," I want to know who they are or it's just meaningless noise.
I understand you are curious; but since it apparently has nothing to do with wikia hosted lists, why are you bringing it up on wikien-l?
Because the block happened on Wikipedia. That's the "public action" that changed everything.
As far as I'm aware Durova's email containing the evidence that was used as the basis for blocking !! is still thoroughly oversighted and expunged from Wikipedia. It's silly that I actually had to go to Wikitruth to find a copy of it.
Apparently Wikipedia's lawyer thinks that copyright law trumps your curiosity.
First I've heard that there's been any sort of official statement from Wikipedia's lawyer. Is it posted publicly anywhere? I hope you'll understand my skepticism under the circumstances.
Durova is perfectly capable of posting the email to Wikipedia herself, everything else aside.