On 6/15/07, Gracenotes <wikigracenotes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, thank goodness rules are not set in stone. Policies *should* be
ignored if there is good reason to do so, and there appears to be good
reason here: that a dedicated contributor should be become an admin
when it will benefit the project, and that she needs to use TOR for some
reason, which I do not doubt is an appropriate use (otherwise she
would not use it).
Although you have not yet, please don't claim that many current opposes
have to do with anything other than the TOR issue. Others refer to a
moment
of justifiable indignation caused by a civil form of mud-slinging. I don't
care if the mud is policy; email was clearly the more appropriate route
here (exhibiting greater judgment and empathy).
As an addendum to that, several of your other concerns have to do with
solving an overall rare *social* problem with a *technical* solution. This
has nothing to do with the candidate, but the issue of open proxies in
general, and of the policy (could you believe that people disagreed with
NPOV when Wikipedia started? with the GFDL now? with notability?).