Hi folks.
Firstly, I would like to thank Danny. Despite your annoyance at my actions, and your concern for the wellbeing of Wikipedia, you were polite and calm in your criticism. Criticism is often a bitter pill to swallow, but you were a perfect gentleman, and I genuinely appreciate that.
Secondly, I have been informed that some may feel that I am accusing Jimbo Wales, or Wikipedians generally, of hypocricy, regarding my comments on whether these lists are "unmoderated". I did not mean to imply any such thing, and, for the record I do not think that any of you are hypocritical. I *did* have a point behind my post, but it is not important, so I am happy to completely retract it. I apologise for the offence my careless choice of words has caused.
Thirdly, I should note that my sysop powers were the result of a fairly informal decision by Ed Poor, rather than the general acclamation that has greeted recent sysops. As such I feel somewhat lacking in democratic accountability! :) While I wish to retain my deletion and undeletion powers solely for the purpose of merging page histories or moving page titles, I would like to announce here that I will no longer take any other sysop-restricted actions, until further notice. I hope you can all trust me to keep my word on this matter.
Finally, I'm currently discussing this matter privately with Danny and other interested parties. If you have any feedback, positive or negative (especially negative feedback that is as polite and well-reasoned as Danny's), then I would be deleted to hear from any of you. In particular, I would like to hear from Jtdirl, who I have much respect for, despite our diametrically opposed views. My email adress is wikipedia@myreddice.co.uk.
-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper
Martin wrote in part:
Thirdly, I should note that my sysop powers were the result of a fairly
informal
decision by Ed Poor, rather than the general acclamation that has greeted
recent
sysops. As such I feel somewhat lacking in democratic accountability! :)
While I wish
to retain my deletion and undeletion powers solely for the purpose of
merging page
histories or moving page titles, I would like to announce here that I will
no longer
take any other sysop-restricted actions, until further notice. I hope you
can all trust
me to keep my word on this matter.
I would say that the only reason there were not lots of messages seconding your sysophood was because it was unnecesarry.
So for the record:
I strongly and enthusiastically support Martin as a sysop. I fully trust him to use all and any of his sysop abilities for the good of Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community.
Regards
sannse