As said, it is a community matter and no need WMF get involved, in my humble opinion.
As for racial discrimination, I know an editor who was once opposed by some editors in his first RFA on a certain language project. He is not of the race of majority editors of that project and faced a contest not directly based on nationality issues (at least claimed so) but "his political POV" in regard of some political issues of his own country and theirs.
Fortunately, while he lost his first request, later he was promoted. Insanity seems sometimes to take advantage, and hence community is not infallible - as well as a certain Wikipedia article at a certain moment may carry wrong information. But Wikimedia community seems to have more flexibility which redeems past wrong communal decisions, and hopefully it goes not so worse as trend.
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Obviously no sane Bureaucrat is going to count a vote that says, "Opppose- we shouldn't let in any sysops who can't RSVP with St Peter and the Heavenly Choir for that great Wikimania in the sky".
I think this is a non-issue.
Thanks, Pharos
You're assuming we don't have any insane bureaucrats :-) Seriously though, some bureaucrats do actually read the RfA and try and read the consensus.
Others, well, they look at the tally at the top, get out their calculator, if it's <75% it's a fail, if it's >75% it's a pass.
There's too many of the second kind of bureaucrat.
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