On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Jon scream@datascreamer.com wrote:
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Colleagues,
I'm concerned. I'll start off by saying I'm not sore, just concerned. I'll use my personal experience to illustrate the larger problem.
The elections require an account to have so many edits to gain eligibility to vote. Now, I believe the intent was to be sure that prior to voting, members are established. My previous account, which is established, has enough edits. The password is scrambled. I think everyone knows I'm established. My enwiki "NonvocalScream" does not meet criteria. The account is unified, and is my permanent account is not eligible on any project... yet.
I know you as NonvocalScream since very recent, just because he annoyed me on IRC every night just when I was going to bed, on the thing I've noted I will never deal with on such a way and urge to submit their requests on the wiki. I do not know your previous account. Not everyone therefore recognize you as an established user. Q.E.D.
I would like to esteem your feeling but have seen many similar unconvincing arguments when I served as an Election Official. You are better to seek more robust argument, I suppose.
For your information I have 2K+ edits on English Wikipedia since 2004 and active some areas.