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

[Philippe Beaudette]

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From: "Nicolas Guérin" <nguerin.zurich at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:34 PM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?

> Just that the candidate gives on his candidature page links to his blocked
> sockpuppets, and nothing else.
> So it is impossible to know if he's really activ on another project.
>
>   Guérin Nicolas
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> 2008/6/1 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>
>> >  > 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?
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Just to clarify, that was a rhetorical question.
>>
>> _______________________________________________


He is, indeed, eligible to run.

I'm not sure that we as an election committee would want to get involved in 
stating whether someone is a blocked or banned user: that seems dangerously 
close to advising someone how to vote, which we try very hard not to do - we 
do our best to remain totally neutral.