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

[Gwern Branwen]

On  0, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> scribbled:
> Blu Aardvark wrote:
>
> >jayjg wrote:
> >
> >
> >>That page was an essay. It wasn't even a guideline, and certainly not policy.
> >>
> >>
> >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.
> >
> 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

A good question. When was the last time most of the people on this list (or core editors period) actually saw the blocktext? I think the last time I saw it was a few months ago, and that was an accident of configuration.

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