-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller
If anyone does, please do post, publicly or privately. I have hardly edited at all in recent months. The heated conflicts of the last few days involved several people. I was *not* involved. I have never been in an edit war on Wikinews - except for one with Amgine over an NPOV tag.
No problem here in general - although I would advise you to make your role very clear to some of the more persistently argumentative folk who have a habit of turning to you and looking for a final authority to settle personal opinion disputes. Maybe a big disclaimer on your userpage that if they are looking for a King Solomon-type, you are not that person and that that person or role does not really exist for Wikinews, per se, outside of mandates on project behavior and minimum standards on our content which come from the Foundation.
And just to make things crystal clear, when I mentioned the so-called "cabal" on meta - I did not mean to include Erik/Eloquence.
Being that WN is such a small project with many folks who are only occasional contributors, I believe it is at a stage where some of the more prolific "instruction creepers" (those who seem to prefer telling others how they should write or contribute to the project rather than write new content or pitch in to fix/re-write flawed content themselves) - seem to turn cannibalistic on fellow wikinewsies on a semi-regular basis. Somehow they have self-anointed themselves with a bizarre "village elder" concept that some form of Wikinews authority to control others derives from the fact they make multiple edits daily on already over-edited policy pages. This is the "cabal" I mentioned and its membership is rather fluid although there are two or three members who appear and re-appear regularly.
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