On 8/1/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 8/1/07, Joshua Brady somitho@gmail.com wrote:
Please don't say 'our', you reflect views of yourself and can not in any capacity represent all of en.wp. While I know and dislike some of jayjg's actions and realize he has done things which are infact questionable and morally wrong.
Morally wrong? Wow.
This is a project dedicated to the free distribution of information to the world. It should not be surprising that talk of deleting open discussions and removing revisions from history causes a significant portion of the sort of people who would be attracted to such a project to reflexively reach for their anti-censorship swords.
I happen to be one of them. Without the goodwill of the volunteer community Wikipedia is a dead project, we should keep every Wikipedia process as open to them as legally possible.
Actually, Joshua e-mailed me explaining himself, and his use of the term "morally wrong" has nothing to do with "deleting open discussions" etc. I'm not sure why you think that's relevant to me. Anyway, part of maintaining the goodwill of the volunteer community is protecting them when they are attacked as a result of their volunteer work on behalf of Wikipedia. Or at least empathizing with them, rather than saying "oops, you seem to be too much trouble now, get lost".