[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Puppy]

Utter nonsense. For example, the president and the entire secret service 
as well as judges and the police are all public servants, paid from the 
publics pocketbook. And they all have confidential and secret 
information, and taxpayers demanding they "tell all" or risk public 
censure is beyond naive, its destructive, self and otherwise. ArbCom and 
most of the entire Wikimedia family of projects are not even paid, 
giving us even less "rights" over them than we as taxpayers have over 
our public servants.

(I speak as an American, please excuse the US-centric verbiage)

Raphael Wegmann wrote:
> George Herbert schrieb:
>   
>> Accountability in some situations is "we trust Arbcom and Jimbo, who
>> we find to be honorable trustworthy people and who we expect to do the
>> right thing for Wikipedia, and explain to the degree possible
>> afterwards".
>>
>>     
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Public's trust rests upon authorities being openly accountable.
> If any authority refuses to disclose information to the public,
> they are stripping the public of its ability to hold them accountable,
> which will as likely as not result in a loss of public trust.
> However, it is the authorities that first display a lack of trust
> in the public.
>
> br
>