[WikiEN-l] Bus Uncle

[David Goodman]

I abrogate the right to eliminate things from the wiki on my own
say-so if i know that others support them. I explicitly
disenfranchised myself from doing this as an admin during my
almost-unanimous Rfa.

It is only by limiting myself to what I know beyond a doubt is
unsupportable that I consider myself fit for the responsibility of
taking unilateral action when it is actually needed.
 DGG

On 6/6/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 6/6/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > No, he made a unilateral decision. He just happened to inform the
> > > mailing list afterwards, he didn't do so in order to get a review of
> > > his decision.
> >
> >
> > He made an edit.  And I don't know why he informed the mailing list, but it
> > certainly shows that he wasn't trying to be sneaky or hide anything.  Surely
> > he informed the mailing list knowing full well that if the community
> > disagrees with his edit they will reverse it.
>
> This very odd debate about whether I have the right to remove an item
> from a list on the wiki strikes me as a sideshow. The fact that ti's
> happening at all suggests to me that there are a lot of editors who
> have deliberately and knowingly disenfranchised themselves by
> abrogating the right to edit the wiki, and expect others to follow
> the.
>
> Anthony is right, of course. I removed an item from the list, and
> posted on the talk page of the article, and on this mailing list,
> signalling my alarm that the item, in its present state, had been on
> the list in the first place.
>
> This is how things are supposed to happen. It's why we call it a wiki.
>  It's said to be a Hawaian word meaning "quick".
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.