[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

[Carl Peterson]

On 9/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/09/06, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> > > Yeah, but when I do something, unless I am very very very careful, it
> > > ends up getting used as a stick to beat innocents to death with. :)
>
> > Couldn't you do what Danny does for WP:OFFICE actions, i.e. have a 'this
> > is me just editing' account and a 'this is me as a policy-creating
> > godking' account? And then anyone who tries to use your ordinary edits
> > to beat innocents with can just be laughed at.
>
>
> You haven't experienced the amazing feats of Jimbomancy some
> wikilawyers and obsessives will stretch to. "This edit is ABSOLUTELY
> IMPERATIVE because Jimbo suggested on a mailing list in 1989 that
> something like it would be a good idea."


That's when Jimbomancy is invoked in directly stating that "edits made by
this account are to be regarded no differently than those made by any other
editor." Also, if the account remained anonymous with regards to its
owner...

Carl