[WikiEN-l] Query admin powers

[Fred Bauder]

Bull on and make a nasty enemy if you wish. But, if you are patient and wait
til he can look at his references, he will probably appologize, admit that
he has no special perogatives and perhaps happily collaborate with you for
years.

Fred

> From: Skyring <skyring at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Skyring <skyring at gmail.com>, English Wikipedia
> <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:21:24 +1100
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Query admin powers
> 
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 05:43:26 -0700, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>> I would just wait for him to return from vacation. While seniority does not
>> exist on Wikipedia officially, in practice it does and certain editors such
>> as Adam Carr have a degree of favor. Other mechanisms for solving the
>> problem such as negotiating with him or mediating will also require his
>> presence.
> 
> Adam may be on holiday, but he has made several changes to the article
> and the discussion page, where he states that he "can't check his
> references" at the moment. One might ask why he feels he is able to
> revert my edits, which I have backed up by some authoritative and
> readily available texts on the matter, if he is without access to
> reference material.
> 
> In any case, he is flat out wrong on several points. No appeal to
> seniority or rankism can justify a stubborn insistence on untruths.
> 
> Gough Whitlam and the events of the 1975 dismissal are well enough
> known that I can be sure that there are other editors available who
> are supplied with the standard texts, such as Paul Kelly's definitive
> text "November 1975".
> -- 
> Peter in Canberra
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