On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Wily D wrote:
Indeed, just yesterday Poetlister was unblocked on en.wikipedia, at least partly based on her long history of good conduct at Wikiquote. One of the canonical ways to get unbanned is to go to another project and behave.
For the record, Poetlister had begun to accumulated her good conduct *before* her banning from English Wikipedia editing.
Of course, getting out of the heat, and proving your good faith elsewhere separates them from the really harmful people. The regulars on other projects will be more inclined to treat the person more objectively. I have encountered Poetlister on Wikisource, and had a sharp difference of opinion with her, but even though I disagreed with her, I had no reason to question her motives. The learning curve for people with strong opinions is not an easy one, and those who are too willing to find fault with them would do better putting a small effort into searching for common ground.
Your opinion is largely overlapped with mine. She has a distinct character; strong and keen sense and preferences, some strong opinion and no person easily to be persuaded. I disagree with her on some points and have no expectations those differences may be dissolved near soon. It doesn't however hinder our cooperations. On the other things, perhaps more than disagreed ones, we agree happily and enjoy working together.
And she is so integrated as admin that she doesn't mind performing the actions she as individual opposes. She keeps articles she had voted for deletion and deleted the one she had voted for keeping, if it was the community consensus. And we English Wikiquotians are sure there was no problematic/puppet-smelling votes when she was the minority in her opinion.
If Poetlister's sin was with the use of sockpuppets did anybody begin by approaching her in a respectful manner about this serious sin?
I don't know if someone approached her, but I am not sure if it is necessary right now. Poetlister herself has denied to be someone's sock, I heard, and she as Wikiquotian is known the editor far from sockpupetting. Now English Wikipedia Arbcom says she agreed not to use open proxies anymore. We need much further than those things?
Cheers,
Ec
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