Slim Virgin wrote:
On 4/19/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
This is not an official OFFICE action of any kind.
Jimmy, you said you're willing to answer any and all questions.
If this isn't an OFFICE action, and it isn't a Foundation action, can you say what it is?
An action within my personal capacity in my traditional role in the structure of governance of English Wikipedia. Our rules about all these sorts of things are quite clear, and have been the same basically forever.
Your unblock would have been overturned by now (within minutes, in fact) if you'd been an ordinary admin. If you're acting here as an ordinary admin, and given the amount of opposition there is to what you've done, if your unblock is overturned, will you desysop the admin who overturns it?
I am very hopeful that people will listen to the reasons I have given and understand that there is a lot going on there that people may not know about, and that there is absolutely no urgency, so that we do not have to find out what happens in such a case.
To comment on Durova's post: I appreciate these concerns very deeply, and yet, I find myself in a position where difficult competing concerns must be thoughtfully balanced.
If my goal is to stop people from harassing Wikipedians in other venues... and this is my goal... then I have to be thoughtful and flexible in how I go about it. If promises are made, and forward progress is made, then I think it important to respond in good faith.
If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, we reblock and that's that.
If it works, then I will have been successful.
I don't know yet which way it will go. But I see no harm in trying.
--Jimbo