On Jan 7, 2008 1:52 PM, Samuel Henderson samueljhenderson@gmail.com wrote:
If the information posted here has been largely correct, there is absolutely no reason -- and no excuse -- for not desysopping this user. This strikes me as a profound failure of stewardship.
Actually, I wouldn't phrase it that way.
The stewards are expressedly asked not to "make decisions" but to "carry out decisions". In this particular instance, no-one has made or is making a decision, very simply because there is no real precedent (or at least no precedent that has been applied).
I butted in because I believe that the logo/powered by instance is NOT a community decision, it's a Foundation matter and if needed, I'll start a policy that all projects hosted by Wikimedia should be labelled as such, and use this as a precedent, have it ratified by the board and whatnot. I find the deed rather common sense (ie. having those icons at the bottom of the website) but if it needs a policy, then let's have it.
But in the end, the desysopping or removal of this person should be a community based decision. Question is... where is the ru.wikibooks community? And if there is one, do they have enough relay within the steward/meta Wikimedia community to be heard? Do they even know the process to make this go forward? Do they actually *want* this person to be removed?
If anything, this strikes me as a a profound failure of community based decisions.
Delphine