On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com wrote:
I would be very very wary about removing people from the list even if you have definite proof that they've committed some rather more heinous sin than using a sock. If that's an issue that should disqualify people from standing, we have to trust that the voters will have the sense to realise this. (Obviously we want to take reasonable precautions against both a user and their sock voting, but that's a different issue entirely.)
Yes. Keep in mind that you guys are a separate legal entity with no formal ties to the WMF projects, or the users who use them. Consider this a very firm suggestion that you not tie your membership nor leadership to actions on any one particular wiki, especially wikis that you do not own or control. This helps on both ends because it keeps you independent from decisions/actions made by the WMF or decisions made by volunteers on the wiki, and it also helps to protect the wiki from chapters who start to feel a personal ownership over the projects and attempt to exert undue control over them because of it.
--Andrew Whitworth