[WikiEN-l] the elephant in the room

[Fred Bauder]

The problem is that Wikipedia, for better or worse, has an inquisitorial system, with all the dangers such a system presents. We need to limit our investigations to harmful activities. Harmful activities cause harm, observable trouble. An administrator who uses open proxies but does not engage in vandalism or sockpuppetry is not producing observable trouble.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gabe Johnson [mailto:gjzilla at gmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 01:28 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] the elephant in the room
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>On 6/17/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>> What I said is that all productive and trusted users are exempt from inquisition, witch hunts, to put it bluntly.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
>One man's "witch hunt" is another man's "this person is doing
>something legitimately wrong and I no longer trust him". ~~~~
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