Foundation level issue is whether or not a community have the right to exclude a specific class or category of users from editing based upon unsubstantiated claims of potential misbehavior?
________________________________ From: George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, November 29, 2009 2:45:15 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy
Without picking on anyone in particular, I urge everyone to go back and reread Brad's comment earlier.
This conversation is following the path that public discussions on this have repeatedly before.
It is not clear that anyone has raised any issues which are appropriate or necessary for the Foundation to deal with.
The English language Wikipedia policy, slightly codified as it is, has been stated and explained. If you want to discuss that further I would recommend taking it to Wikien-L, or start a policy discussion on-Wiki.
If you have a specific claim that the Foundation has to or should intervene please state that, simply and concisely. Otherwise, in my opinion, this is going far afield from appropriate on Foundation-l.
I am not a list mod and have no pretense that I can make the conversation go away. But - please consider if you're holding a productive conversation, and please consider if it's even vaguely in the right place.
Thanks.