[WikiEN-l] userbox : insanity ?

[John Lee]

Peter Mackay wrote:

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>I can't say that I care much about the nuts and bolts of anyone else's
>disputes, but to be fair, when someone comes along here, gets treated
>unfairly and unjustly and finds that this applies all the way up, they feel
>entitled to have a complain about it.
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>The crowning irony is that nobody cares about the complaint. The relevant
>admins and Arbcom reckon they have done their job, and besides they have
>plenty of other work to get on with, and just about everyone else assumes
>that the ArbCom have worked through the issue and the complaint is
>unjustified.
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>The thing is that very little about Wikipedia's social government conforms
>to the standards one might expect from a real-world justice system or
>national government. We're somewhere else.
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>I'm not saying that the system is a total shambles, just that it's patchy.
>Much like WP itself. Some bits are really really good, some are OK, others
>need work and others suck.
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>And the complaints that make their way here aren't from vandals. We can
>recognise vandalism and act upon it swiftly.
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>Peter (Skyring)
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Bingo. We're not a social experiment -- we're trying to build an 
encyclopedia. I don't see any encyclopedia projects running themselves 
like a real justice system or national government. Wikipedia does not 
exist to mete out justice to people who try to edit it. Nobody has an 
innate right to edit Wikipedia or be done justice by other people who 
edit it.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])