[Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

[David Goodman]

I agree that this   ends the need for any immediate action by the
community in this aspect of things.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real
>> philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I
>> acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do
>> things from the "Founder" flag.  I even removed my ability to edit
>> semi-protected pages!  (I've kept permissions related to 'viewing' things.)
>>
>> I do not want to be a tyrant or dictator.  I do not want us to fight
>> about that kind of thing, as it's really a distraction from our work.
>
> Thanks for this, it is a very good move. I think this will have the
> desired effect of allowing us to move on from discussing you and
> discuss the actual issue.
>
> I notice you have kept "protect" and "undelete". Is that intentional?
> If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision?
>
> As someone else has mentioned in this thread, you have kept the rights
> necessary to change your own rights in the future. It would probably
> be best to remove them too. I'm assuming you don't intend to give
> yourself back rights should you want to use them (that would make this
> a meaningless gesture, which I've never known you make before), so you
> have no need to keep those rights.
>
> I think you should also consider your admin rights on English
> Wikipedia. I know they are historically a separate issue from your
> founder rights, but since you have already voluntarily given up your
> enwiki block rights, now might be the time to give up the rest too.
> (You can use the founder flag for the various view rights, which I
> think you are right to keep.)
>
> Thank you again for doing this - despite the fact that I've just been
> picking holes in it, I really do think that even with these issues it
> is an excellent thing to have done. The important this is the good
> attitude you've shown in doing this.
>
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