[WikiEN-l] the elephant in the room

[jayjg]

On 6/18/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/17/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 6/17/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The other thing about the harping on banning and identification is
> > > that it's rather too obvously about preventing particular people from
> > > editing, and not about the editing per se.
>
> > Whoops, there's that conspiracy again. *Which* particular people, and
> > exactly *why* would someone want to prevent them from editing? Which
> > conspiracy theory are we going with at this point?
>
> Actually, I believe the phrase you were looking for is "The Cabal
> (tm)". But I think Dan Tobias is right, and that it functions more
> like a clique. And as for its membership: please. Anyone who has
> followed this and its related crises over the past months can provide
> a quite precise set of names.

So, again, why would "The Cabal (tm)" specifically want to stop CW
from becoming an admin? What nefarious purpose is served by this?