Trying to game the system to push a point is disruptive. I believe
most communities pretty much accept the standard of "disruption
leads to blocking." Yes, they are subverting, but what difference
would a Foundation resolution make? It's not as though it would
make lobbyists suddenly admit themselves and say "Ah, you caught
me."
-Chad
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
White Cat wrote:
Although it is a well known issue, this issue has
finally made its way to
spotlight with the ongoing CAMERA incident on English wikipedia... I am
sure
English wikipedia's arbcom will come up with
a reasonable conclusion and
the
purpose of this email is not related to the
CAMERA arbcom case directly.
Which is good because it is likely most editors on Foundation mailing
have no idea what the CAMERA incident is...
Yes, I know that. Which is the reason why I posted it on Foundation-l as
well as Wiki-en-l
[...]
I recommend that foundation pass a ruling on the
matter of lobby
takeovers.
Which type of ruling are you thinking of ?
Ant
I am not entirely certain. Some sort of a *carefully worded* statement that
unwelcome systematic pov pushing. Really should go without saying...
This has happened many times before. Just to refresh your memory the Danish
Mohammed cartoon controversy, Youtube/Facebook based campaign to remove all
depictions of Mohamed from wikipedia, CAMERA incident are a few of the more
notable cases.
While English wikipedia is somewhat prepared to deal with such issues, other
wikis are quite ill prepared. It would immensely help if there was a global
rule on this issue.
Stewards will not be able to step in unless this is a general rule I think.
Or at least such a ruling would untie the hands of stewards and locals
alike.
- White Cat
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