[WikiEN-l] Durova/!! matter now in newspaper.

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:01:22 -0500, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>
wrote:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=167325580&oldid=167325471

Of course admins discuss problems in back-channels, they always have
and they probably always will.  You'll find that the OTRS list and
IRC channel act as "teh BLP cabal" on occasion, the admin IRC
channel is notorious for it.

The crucial thing always is to remember that it's your neck on the
block if you take action, and asking a dozen like-minded people does
not amount to a sanity check.

In Durova's case, had she actually asked, she'd have been told "hell
no!" because that was *not* a group of like-minded people, it's
reasonably diverse (though not as diverse as we'd like).

In PM's case, no evil cabal is needed to account for his problems,
as the arbitration case makes pretty plain.  Abuse of multiple
accounts plus careless editing of BLPs plus ever-so-polite trolling
= problem.  And that's why PM is currently banned for 90 days and
subject to an enduring editing and account use restriction.

You really need look no further than his own edits, because it was
those that did for him.

Guy (JzG)
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