On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Martin Rulsch martin.rulsch@wikimedia.de wrote:
And what's the purpose of your question(s)? How does it help you to know what he said or not? Do you want to get an impression of his character? Then better start over with fresh questions than the tendentious ones the journalist asked him (but please off-list). Or do you want to hit on him (or claim your disgust) if it comes out that he said roughly what was printed although the situation was differently than told by the journalist and he meant it differently what he has already confirmed? This cannot be useful on this list either. This is not a trial. Who are we to demand the truth here? … I met him for five minutes in Berlin and don't know him onwiki, so will this story (whose common theme I still cannot find—is it really just giving some quotes here and then said?) create or change my impression on him? No, not at all. I haven't been there, I cannot judge the situation, even if this or that party tells me their impressions. I should not even do this, this is not my task and if I have an impression why is it important that others know about it? The journalist had her “story” (and as far as I know journalists, they emphasize the most stupid things one can imagine [if that counts, my lumberjack shirt should be notable for Wikipedia as often as journalists made fun of it 9.9]), Kevin already said that words were taken out of (a non-serious) context, misinterpreted, etc. What do I have to know more about this story? Nothing. Next story please.
Cheers, Martin
With Martin on this one. Having answers to "did he really say that??" isn't relevant for this list. Edward is obviously free to contact Kevin directly to keep asking, and no one else is likely to answer either way.