[Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?

[Al Tally]

2008/6/1 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:

> On 01/06/2008, Nicolas Guérin <nguerin.zurich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry for this title a bit provocating,
> >  but i just wonder how a candidate for the board election 2008
> >  (User:Thekohser, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thekohser )
> can run
> >  with :
> >
> >  * being banned indefinitely on en.wp (see :
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Thekohser
> )
> >  * having at least 34 blocked sockpuppets on en.wp (see :
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_MyWikiBiz )
> >
> >  Did somebody already checked it, or is it really allowed to vote for
> such
> >  candidate ?
>
> I don't know of any of the candidacy requirements that would be
> violated by any of that. I would hope people would take it into
> account when voting, but if people want to vote for someone that's
> been banned from a project, they're allowed to do so. One project
> can't dictate whether or not someone can stand for the board of the
> whole foundation, can they?
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No. Many users are banned on enwiki that are very welcome on other projects.
An example is Poetlister, who until recently was banned from enwiki. She is
a bureaucrat on en.wikiquote.

-- 
Al Tally
(User:Majorly)