[WikiEN-l] Re: Query admin powers

[csherlock at ljh.com.au]

FWIW, I'm going to unprotect that page and let the author contribute to 
it. I only ask the contributor to cite their sources. They should also 
be aware that I'll be able to verify this information if I do a quick 
trip to the State Library of New South Wales.

Ta bu shi da yu

Skyring wrote:
> 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".