[WikiEN-l] The admin problem

[The Cunctator]

On 2/28/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is far too much unjustified suspicion about this. One
> > administrator recently started deleting copyright infringing copies of
> > Time magazine covers, an action for which he received the full
> > authorization of Jimbo Wales.  He was RfC'd!  When finally he obtained
> > from Jimbo permission to reproduce the email (which I also received)
> > the response was to openly question his honesty, and demand that he
> > prove that the email (which carried Jimbo's email address, that of the
> > recipient, and my own name, and was posted openly on the wiki with
> > Jimbo's permission) came from Jimbo.
>
> Tony: Sorry guys! Queen Elizabeth gave me permission to tear down
> Buckingham Palace. Nothing you can do about it, nye ney!
> Tony: Evidence? What you mean I need evidence for? She emailed me and
> said I could.
> Tony: No I can't show it to you. She hasn't given me permission to
> show you the email yet. You trust me don't you?
> Tony: No I can't wait! Time is expensive and I have better things to
> do than argue with rules layers. I want this place cleared before
> tea-time.
>
Mr. Prosser said, "You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or
protests at the appropriate time, you know."
"Appropriate time?" hooted Arthur. "Appropriate time? The first I knew
about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him
if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no, he'd come to
demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no.
First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he
told me."
"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning
office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them,
yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call
attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or
anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display on the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"