[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[Ray Saintonge]

Blu Aardvark wrote:

>jayjg wrote:
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>>That page was an essay. It wasn't even a guideline, and certainly not policy.
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>It may not have been explicit policy, but it was linked to from 
>[[MediaWiki:blockedtext]] for some time, and if that doesn't indicate a 
>reasonable consensus, I don't know what does.
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So who ever pays a lot of attention to [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]], or, 
for that matter, anything on the Mediawiki namespace?  How can a 
consensus be viewed as reliable when it appears to have developed on an 
obscure corner that no-one ever visits?

Ec