I'm glad to say that so far as I know, Ed has never frozen another page in which he was personally involved and you have never edited anyone else's user page again. Good for both of you.
Howlin' Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
|From: Jonathan Walther krooger@debian.org |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:57:55 -0800 | | |--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed |Content-Disposition: inline |Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | |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 y= |ou |> >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. | |--=20 | Geek House Productions, Ltd. | | Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, | QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, | General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 | |Phone: 604-435-1205 |Email: djw@reactor-core.org |Webpage: http://reactor-core.org |Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2 | |--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt |Content-Type: application/pgp-signature |Content-Disposition: inline | |-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) | |iQCVAwUBPkXf08K9HT/YfGeBAQGsoQP9H7ccJQ0cUtCbcZu7RuseG7T7Ig5AJdMb |ekkzviOFEpL4BCKYYsN/nhg0edBcKzANkT5n8BjyvDyq+6nMvGDntSd53cmTgAZN |YA8FYdfUqzaqAswaBx8HRK5peRtqHepfReoVCr35DrnQKd0Nr90wMWT6ltoqiOPx |6N+OJiMTf2w= |=XGWO |-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | |--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt-- |_______________________________________________ |WikiEN-l mailing list |WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |