[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Fred Bauder]

We may err.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lee [mailto:johnleemk at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 09:43 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL
>
>On 8/29/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>> > On 28 Aug 2007 at 14:57:16 -0700, "George Herbert"
>> > <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Either the system works... we are mostly honorable people, and have
>> >> enough honest and principled people that if something seriously
>> >> sinister started someone would stand up and publically announce it and
>> >> call for it to end.
>> >
>> > ...and get labeled a "troll", his messages summarily deleted as
>> > trolling, and eventually he gets banned, then any subsequent person
>> > who expresses similar ideas gets labeled a "sockpuppet" and banned
>> > too, even more summarily. And the clique pats themselves on the back
>> > for defeating another bad guy.
>>
>> I don't think that's a fair description of what goes on at all.
>
>
>Might not be fair, but it reflects the perception of how we deal with
>whistle-blowers. Arguably we haven't had a serious case of something rotten
>in the state of Wikipedia being exposed, but is there any assurance that how
>we deal with false whistle-blowers will not be the same way we deal with
>real ones?
>
>Johnleemk
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