[WikiEN-l] The admin problem

[Justin Cormack]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:58 -0500, Fastfission wrote:
> Here are my claims simplified:
> 1. TBSDY was speedying large amounts of images labeled as "fair use"
> as being copyvios.
> 2. There are no CSD provisions for speedying images as copyvios (or at
> least, were not any at the time he was doing this; I haven't checked
> them since then).
> 3. TBSDY claimed that Jimbo gave him the right to speedy images as
> copyvios in a private e-mail.
> 4. TBSDY produced the e-mail, and it said that TBSDY could nominate
> the images for deletion (the proper policy), and if that failed, Jimbo
> might decide to speedy them. It did not say TBSDY could speedy images,
> or any other admin, as copyvios.
> 
> My conclusions: TBSDY did not, in fact, have the authority to speedy
> images as copyvios, and was acting against policy. I'm perfectly happy
> to assume good faith on this and assume he misunderstood Jimbo's
> e-mail or something like that -- nothing dishonest is posited.

Seems like an amount of misunderstanding.

Can we see the email?

Justinc