[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Note: this was an offlist mail to me, which has been sent back to the whole list. Black mark for etiquette on that.

I advise everyone against answering private mails from this poster.

Well, and what you say is absolutely not what you wrote to the list, then. You will gain no respect at all from exaggerating and then shifting position when challenged.

Charles

> 
> From: "Parker Peters" <onmywayoutster at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/10/06 Fri PM 04:59:18 BST
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.
> 
> No.
> 
> I am asserting that polices, while they may have been well intentioned, have
> the net effect of being a bureaucratic nightmare that makes it a virtual
> impossibility that any course of action against an admin by a non-admin will
> succeed.
> 
> That policies which were designed to safeguard admins from deliberate
> harassment have become twisted into opposition of any investigation of admin
> conduct whatsoever.
> 
> I'm forwarding this to en-l because I want these words to be clear to
> everyone.
> 
> Cheers,
> Parker.
> 
> On 10/6/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > You are asserting that
> >
> > Every policy
> >
> > (not some but all)
> >
> > is designed
> >
> > (i.e. deliberately set up)
> >
> >
> > to make it impossible
> >
> > (not inconvenient, time consuming, legalistic)
> >
> > for an aggrieved user to make any protest against abuse.
> >
> > (you say _any protest_, not just an effective protest leading to action).
> >
> > Well, that's hooey. Anyone can start an RfC. Show me an admin who sits on
> > an RfC and I'll take action on that myself.
> >
> > Charles
> >
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