Erik Moeller wrote:
Jimmy Wales:
5. This one is perhaps the hardest to write in an
NPOV manner: Erik is
not the dictator of Wikinews, and furthermore, everyone can acknowledge
that he has said so himself, repeatedly. We can all further
acknowledge, even Erik, that he acts boldly and with conviction at times
and that this has at times irritated people who felt (fairly or
unfairly) that he was trying to be a dictator.
You are speaking in the plural. I see no evidence that anyone besides
Amgine has a problem with my general behavior on the site. 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. I
am generally very careful to avoid the impression that I am somehow
trying to push anything through. Please, do review my edit history:
http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=E…
Erik
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The issue Erik refers to is when, without consulting the community, he
decided to post unedited copy from VOA news, which in my opinion had
bias. He repeatedly removed the {{NPOV}} tag without initially
addressing the concerns on the talk page. He also published at least one
of the articles while it was disputed.
See:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals/Archive/June_20…
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:Ethiopians_vote_amid_opposition_charges_of…
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:Afghan_president_calls_protesters_enemies_…
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Afghan_president_calls_protest…
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Palestinians_mark_Israel%27s_c…
The discussion was heated, and is mostly logged at
http://pleonasm.saewyc.net/index.php/IRC_log_-_Xirzon
With the more-recent dispute, Erik is correct that he was not involved
in the discussion regarding the implementation of the DynamicPageList in
the Developing stories template on the main page. However, after a
compromise was reached until the DPL could be updated, he chose break
the compromise by reverting it.
Had he spoken on the Water Cooler he would have created a greater than
60% consensus to implement the proposal, but he did not do so.
He then created a technical tool to require the use of templates in new
articles and implemented it on the main page - again without consulting
the community. It is likely that this tool would have been embraced by
the community, just as NGerda's upgrades to the article tags were, but
he did not bring it to the community for their input.
Erik and I have had these two conflicts, both fundamentally over
consulting the community, and I do not feel I can work in a circumstance
where a person who is rarely directly involved in the site feels they
can repeatedly act outside the standards of that community.
Amgine