Given Isis'/Kay's continued legal threats against a valued member of the Wikipedia community (Tarquin) for a misunderstanding (largely on her part), I must insist that her sysop status be revoked. I cannot trust her to be fair in the use of the sysop privileges any longer.
Jimbo, please take action in this matter ASAP.
Regards,
Erik
At 12:37 03/02/2003 +0100, Erik wrote:
Given Isis'/Kay's continued legal threats against a valued member of the Wikipedia community (Tarquin) for a misunderstanding (largely on her part), I must insist that her sysop status be revoked. I cannot trust her to be fair in the use of the sysop privileges any longer.
Normally I'm all for handing out adminships quite liberally, but I do not feel that Isis' actions (threatening tarquin with a court case simply because he civilly disagreed with her interpretation of copyright law) is the action of somebody with the best interests of the Wikipedia at heart. As such, I too would like to see Isis' sysop rights revoked.
I also wouldn't mind if she was banned outright, but I think I'm just saying that because I'm so bloody angry about all this.
The gory details incidentally, for those fortunate enough to have missed them, can be found at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Juliette_Binoche , with additional whining at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales
lp (camembert) WikiKarma: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:37:18PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
Given Isis'/Kay's continued legal threats against a valued member of the Wikipedia community (Tarquin) for a misunderstanding (largely on her part), I must insist that her sysop status be revoked. I cannot trust her to be fair in the use of the sysop privileges any longer.
Jimbo, please take action in this matter ASAP.
I object to this request, and request that Isis sysop status be left alone.
Isis has repeatedly asked for clarification, in very polite terms. I have not seen attempts to answer him.
Isis is acting out of concern for his own legal liability. I think it would be the right thing to do for you, Jimbo, or for Tarquin to give Isis a brief note of assurance that he is not liable.
As you may or may not have noticed, Isis works as a paralegal. He has experience of how things work in the law, so has a better idea than the rest of us if he actually is in legal danger or not. Far better to have him onside and working for us, than to snub him and lose his valuable services.
Jonathan