On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:46:40PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up, Vicki. I don't have a problem with that.
If things were the way Vikki said they were, that would be fantastic. The incident with Ed Poor that I referred to was where he was helping edit an article, then noticed an edit war, and froze the page.
After the page was frozen there were howls of protest from Eric, Ortolan88 and so forth that he had left the page in a "biased" form. On THEIR request he took the disputed text out entirely, until such time as the page could be unprotected.
Then he got attacked by these individuals for doing the very thing they had begged him to do previously.
What I'm trying to say, Zoe, is that you can't win unless you are willing to stick to your guns. Do what you feel is the right thing for the Wikipedia, and I will back you up.
Jonathan
At 02:43 PM 2/8/03 -0800, Zoe wrote: >I have no problem with Erik's provisos, they're pretty much what I would >have done anyway. Except for being a moderator, not an editor. Are you >saying you don't want me working on any articles on my own? If that's >what you're saying, I can't live with that. That's not what it means. It just means that we (sysops) need to separate our editing from our adminning/sysop work. If I think an article needs protection from vandals, _I stop editing it myself_. This is to avoid the temptation to use sysop powers unfairly in an edit war. It doesn't mean I can't edit pages, or that you wouldn't be able to.