Robert Scott Horning wrote:
Several of the Wikibooks that Jimbo was complaining
about were deleted
by him with the admin status he gave himself. That by itself is OK, but
he did it with a total disregard to the fact that ongoing community
discussion about the modules is going on, and a complete ignorance of
what it means to delete a Wikibook in its entirety. Deleting Wikibooks
is a very involved process, and removing [[b:Jokebook]] is going to be
something that will take several hours to complete by a competent admin
and deleting the front page is only going to make things worse.
No, not in complete ignorance, and certainly not in disregard to
anything. Indeed, the reason I only deleted the front page was
specifically to make sure that I wasn't doing anything that would be too
difficult to reverse.
I don't want to get into an edit war with of all
people Jimbo himself,
but this IMHO has gone way too far. If he wants to serve some sort of
political agenda and disregard the genuine efforts of the community that
is building Wikimedia projects like Wikibooks, so be it. He can write
everything himself there if he wants to as well.
? Political agenda? Do you mean my insistence that a book advocating
white power is not appropriate for any Wikimedia project is a political
agenda? If it is, I plead guilty. NPOV is non-negotiable.
So long Wikimedia and all of the people here. I have
tried. I hope
things improve for the better in the future.
I hereby resign my position as admin on Wikibooks and I anticipate that
I will be banned there as well. Good luck in the future in ever trying
to find people to keep this project going.
Why would you be banned? Why resign as an admin? I don't really
understand this at all.
--Jimbo