Heh, as I said previously, the block was lifted within three days as it was clear to more than one admin that I was erroneously blocked. I wouldn't have brought this issue to foundation-l if attempts to resolve the issue on the Hebrew Wikipedia had succeeded. All of what you're suggesting has already been done and different compromises were already attempted. The other thing is that while you may not be inclined to believe what I'm saying, the community never decided this should be policy, it's just that some admins enforce it as if it were policy.
-Yonatan
On 3/8/07, Jeff V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Yonatan Horan wrote:
I strongly resent your reply. It seems like you have some similar issues with Pokemon articles and that's the reason you lashed out the way you
did.
The reason I raised this issue on this mailing list is not because of
some
misplaced sense of outrage. The incident I was talking about took place
two
months ago and the only reason I mentioned it was to fully disclose any relevant information so other people don't come on here later on and say that the only reason I'm bringing this issue to the attention of others
is
due to a vendetta against the Hebrew Wikipedia or something of the sort. This isn't about me trying to provoke anything. It's about a certain
group
of admins ignoring the fact that speedy deletion of porn articles was
never
passed as a policy on hewp (and there is more than one sysop who can
attest
to this). As I said previously, I don't have any particular interest in
porn
and the fact that I've never edited an article that has anything to do
with
this topic on the english wikipedia supports that. Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson are both notable enough to have their own article on any
wikipedia,
whether it be English, Hebrew or Malaysian. Attempts have been made to resolve this issue "in-house" have failed, otherwise I wouldn't have
posted
it to this mailing list. I can't find the specific meta page at the
moment
but it isn't English Wikipedia only policy that wikipedia isn't censored.
If
the german wikipedia decided to delete all articles regarding Nazi
Germany,
etc. would you have reacted the same way? Or maybe if the Chinese
Wikipedia
decided to ban all articles on the issue of democracy? I hope you rethink your response and maybe try not to treat me as a troll when I really am
not
one.
-Yonatan
Perhaps you should make these arguments to the folks running the Hebrew Wikipedia? How about posting articles about famous Hebrew porn stars? See if that flies. Would be a good test of what you say. I do respect the Hebrew Wikipedia stance on this topic and standing up for their culture. I have to agree with that community. You should take your arguments back there.
Ask nicely to be let back on and see where it goes.
:-)
Jeff
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