On 4/20/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/20/06, John Tex <johntexster(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Finally, I love the message for our attorney which explains the importance
of having an office policy, but does absolutely nothing to provide any
rational for why we should then FAIL TO FOLLW our office policy. I guess
maybe that sort of speech fools some of the people some of the time.
This is uncalled for.
Firstly Brad said that there does need to be a healthy debate about
precisely this.
Secondly the question of whether the i's are dotted and the t's are
crossed by the person performing the protection is of piddling
insignificance when set against the fact that the right thing is done.
It not so much that that the i were not dotted and the t were not
crossed. It's that the the dots and crosses removed.
Policy is that we don't let potentially dangerous
content remain while
we discuss a problem with a third party who has contacted us with a
serious complaint. If this isn't spelled out then perhaps it should
be.
I'm sitting here and, over the months, watching people head towards
Danny's office actions like moths to a flame. No wonder he doesn't
want to advertise them, particularly the more sensitive ones. This
latest kerfuffle is a good sign that the process we have set up just
isn't enough. The rules are not an end in themselves. We must
recognise that the Foundation does important work to keep this and the
other projects alive and well funded, and it must be permitted to do
that. All the fripperies about whether X or Y followed some rules are
immaterial. The work must be done.
WP:OFFICE actions can be carried out. They cannot be carried out in
secret since that would involve sucessfuly hideing information from
wikipedians (the only way to do that is to claim something is a
wikipedia guideline or list it as a copyvio). We have a process of
sorts. If it is goinged to be changed some warning would be nice.
--
geni