[WikiEN-l] Office actions

[James Hare]

Yes. We all know what happened to Erik Moeller.

And now let's not speak of that incident ever again.

On 12/15/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/06, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 15/12/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/15/06, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:
> > > > On 14/12/06, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I suspect in many circumstances Danny will not be able to respond
> to
> > > > > such questions, since he doesn't want an official decision of the
> > > > > Foundation on record.
> > > >
> > > > I thought this project was founded on accountability.
> > >
> > > Editors are accountable for their own actions.
> > >
> > > The Foundation rightly does not want to be accountable for other
> > > people's actions.
> >
> > I have no idea where you got the idea that I was asking the Foundation
> > to be responsible for other people's actions. I'll quote you again the
> > text (quoted above) that I was replying to:
> >
> > "Danny... doesn't want an official decision of the Foundation on
> record."
> >
> > In this case, it was an "office action", which appears to generally
> > equate to "putting stuff in the memory hole".
> >
> > Is it Foundation policy to hide official decisions of the Foundation?
> > Or is it Danny policy? Either way, it appears that the management of
> > this project is asymptotically approaching that of the Open[sic]
> > Directory Project.
> >
> > --
> > Earle Martin
>
>
> Given that the risk of violating an Office action is Danny having you
> banned/desysopped/draped in sackcloth and ashes, I think that the
> boundaries
> of Office actions need to be spelled out pretty clearly. Hiding them is
> not
> good for the project.
>
> Parker
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