Jim,
I have no stake in this beyond the fact that it is clear to me that abuses are taking place. Please don't try to put words into my mouth.
What I am stating is that whenever there is a possible appearance of conflict of interest, it should be avoided. The very same principle applies in journalism, in politics, and pretty much anywhere else as well.
Parker
On 12/13/06, Jim Schuler jim62sch@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/06, Parker Peters onmywayoutster@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/06, Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu- tariqabjotu@gmail.com wrote:
However, I don't appreciate the accusations (not from you, George) of this being some Muslim Guild conspiracy. It's not;
I'm
not even a member of the Muslim Guild.
Lest anyone misunderstand on that point, I fully agree that claims of
a
conspiracy starting this are clearly unreasonable, and help show why
Runed
may not have the temperment to be a productive WP editor.
I don't agree with Parker Peters that it is a conflict of interest for Muslim admins to react to abuse issues on Islam related pages.
I think that it is a generally tendentious and unhelpful thing to do.
In cases where a Muslim editor is in an edit conflict with another
editor
on an Islam-related topic, a third admin who just "happens" to be Muslim is definitely going to raise questions over conflict of interest,
especially
when both sides are accusing each other of POV pushing and the Muslim admin sides with the Muslim editor.
Parker
I see. So if a Christian editor and an unspecified editor are duking it out on the Creation article, whatever admin decides to step in can't be Christian because of potential COI, especially if he happened to agree with the Christian editor? OK, so if the other editor is an atheist, then I suppose an atheist admin would be blocked from acting for the same reason. But since Muslims and Jews are "of the Book", as Guy said, and since both believe in a Creation myth, they couldn't step in either so I guess we would need to search for a Hindu or Buddhist or Shintoist, yes? At what point does the lunacy end? Or, could it be that Peter Parker or Parker Peters or whatever simply has a visceral hatred for and innate suspicion of Muslims?
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