Michael Snow wrote:

Walter van Kalken wrote:

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Also the soap opera in which users were in a revert war over jimbo's vote as it is a vote against the rules. And people including some very langtime mods were arguing that Jimbo doesn't have any say in nl.wikipedia affairs at all and that he was trying to influence the vote. Which is an interesting debating point.

I myself was also told by longterm mods after I gave my apologies that I shouldn't do that as I was influencing the vote.

Since when is it wrong to influence votes when you do so in a completely transparent fashion? If you ban all influence from votes, nobody will have any information or arguments on which to base a vote. Next thing you know, using rational argument and persuasion to convince someone that articles should be written from a neutral point of view will become a violation of the "no-influence" policy.

--Michael Snow

Unfortunately it isn't over yet, the soapseries continues. I am now being attacked by fellow Steward and Mod Walter in the Dutch village pump that I am responsible solely for the whole mess and that I should have resigned before the procedure was over.

His frustration is because my desysopping and the mess around it was published today on a Dutch media website, http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/39461 and a national newspaper just called me as they saw an article in it. I was accused that I shouldn't have answered there questions, which means they would have written a meaner article as I nuanced it and said explicitely that I did make mistakes.

So my right to defend myself or to answer questions is being denied by a small group of people on nl:

Waerth/Walter