David, the other elephant in the room is that we don't call out outrageous behavior when it is couched in a veneer of propriety or concern for others.

Your posts to this thread were vicious, and beneath you. Stop.

Sam On May 19, 2016 10:48, "David Emrany" david.emrany@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Nathan,

Are you claiming Chris Sherwood's email "The End" was a hoax ? and

Chris Sherwood didn't post "I've been bullied, and I'm having suicidal thoughts" ? and

Chris Sherwood didn't post "I've been called obsessive, someone who attacks people " ? and

Chris Sherwood didn't post these about his Salim Mehajer edits - "I should have realised it was partisan, and it was a bad judgement call. I write done more material, but it was far too negative. I guess o didn't see it that way at the time. .. and the next day I was accused of writing an attack article "

Here's some more from Chris "... I was gob smacked. ... So I did something inexcusable. I told the editor who had been stalking me what I thought of them. I swore at them and called them bad names. It was reverted."

So "harassment" and "stalking" and "defamation" are explicitly covered in Chris Sherwood's own post. Although I daresay he could plead temporary (or permanent) insanity.

Block me / Moderate me permanently/temporarily whatever. As far as I am concerned you are just another lunatic at the asylum; And probably getting your.meds for free [1] ?.

Dave [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-awrich-1ba44422

On 5/19/16, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:33 AM, David Emrany david.emrany@gmail.com wrote:

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Dear Gerard

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Our community consists for a large part of people who get their sense of self worth out of our projects

Thanks for being bold enough to identify the elephant in the room.

Larry Sanger said it best - the inmates are running the asylum [1] and trolls have taken over Wikipedia (since at least as far back as 2007).

I am deeply disturbed by the haste displayed on this mailing list to brush this incident under the carpet.

Here we are, all freely discussing Chris Sherlock's real life issues, but would we / WMF have disclosed Chris Sherlock's identity to Salim Mehajer (the living person Chris was so busy and intent on defaming) if Mr Mehajer applied to know the person behind the handle "Letsbefriends" (a long term sockpuppet account if there ever was one)

Would we/ WMF have disclosed the mental illness the user was suffering from, and which was clearly known to Arbcom members like "Brad", had Mr.Mehajer come asking.

This "encyclopedia" clearly needs a mechanism whereby somebody takes responsibility for the articles being written on living persons, and verified identities for its users, instead of hiding behind Section 230 of the CDA and the vast financial reserves now accumulated for legal bashing.

Dave

On what basis do you use terms like "defaming" or "harassing" or

"stalking"

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as you did in your last two posts to this list? These seem like serious and unsupported legal accusations that, in an ideal world, would result

in

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you being permanently moderated.