Slim Virgin wrote:
On 4/19/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
This is not an official OFFICE action of any
kind.
Jimmy, you said you're willing to answer any and all questions.
If this isn't an OFFICE action, and it isn't a Foundation action, can
you say what it is?
An action within my personal capacity in my traditional role in the
structure of governance of English Wikipedia. Our rules about all these
sorts of things are quite clear, and have been the same basically forever.
Your unblock would have been overturned by now
(within minutes, in fact) if you'd been an ordinary admin. If you're
acting here as an ordinary admin, and given the amount of opposition
there is to what you've done, if your unblock is overturned, will you
desysop the admin who overturns it?
I am very hopeful that people will listen to the reasons I have given
and understand that there is a lot going on there that people may not
know about, and that there is absolutely no urgency, so that we do not
have to find out what happens in such a case.
To comment on Durova's post: I appreciate these concerns very deeply,
and yet, I find myself in a position where difficult competing concerns
must be thoughtfully balanced.
If my goal is to stop people from harassing Wikipedians in other
venues... and this is my goal... then I have to be thoughtful and
flexible in how I go about it. If promises are made, and forward
progress is made, then I think it important to respond in good faith.
If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, we reblock and that's that.
If it works, then I will have been successful.
I don't know yet which way it will go. But I see no harm in trying.
--Jimbo