On 08/13/2014 01:31 PM, Trillium Corsage wrote:
[...] that he has affronted "the community."
I've spent no small amount of years involved in the various layers of administrative/governance/meta aspects of the English Wikipedia and from this I learned one lesson:
"Whenever someone says 'the community' without qualifying this to an enumerable set of users means the assertion is definitely false."
There is no such thing as "the community"; we have a huge collection of communities joined loosely over a number of ambigously shared principles that often - but not always - move in more or less the same direction.
Anyone who claims to speak for "the community" is - put simply - full of shit.
-- Marc