[WikiEN-l] EssJay situation

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Since I can't seem to get any edits through right now, I'll respond here:

Jimbo, thanks for clearing this up on your end, and thank you for taking the
time to reply to my email. I'm glad that you don't condone this. This has
been a troublesome period, but hopefully everyone can move on, and Essjay
will eventually get what positions he needs back.

On 03/03/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> I have just posted this on my talk page:
>
> I have blanked my entire talk page to make sure this statement gets
> adequate attention.  Hopefully someone more clueful than me :-) can
> archive things properly.
>
> I have been for several days in a remote part of India with little or no
> Internet access.  I only learned this morning that EssJay used his false
> credentials in content disputes.  I understood this to be primarily the
> matter of a pseudonymous identity (something very mild and completely
> understandable given the personal dangers possible on the Internet) and
> not a matter of violation of people's trust.  I want to make it
> perfectly clear that my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully
> based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on.  Even now, I
> have not been able to check diffs, etc.
>
> I have asked EssJay to resign his positions of trust within the
> community.  In terms of the full parameters of what happens next, I
> advise (as usual) that we take a calm, loving, and reasonable approach.
>   From the moment this whole thing became known, EssJay has been
> contrite and apologetic.  People who characterize him as being "proud"
> of it or "bragging" are badly mistaken.
>
> On a personal level, EssJay has apologized to me, and I have accepted
> his apology on a personal level, and I think this is the right thing to
> do.  If anyone else feels that they need or want a personal apology,
> please ask him for it.  And if you find it to be sincere, then I hope
> you will accept it too, but each person must make their own judgments.
> Despite my personal forgiveness, I hope that he will accept my
> resignation request, because forgiveness or not, these positions are not
> appropriate for him now.
>
> I still have limited net access... for a couple of hours here I will be
> online, and then I am offline until I am in Japan tomorrow morning.  I
> beleive I will have a fast and stable Internet connection at that time,
> and I will deal with this further at that time.
>
> Wikipedia is built on (among other things) twin pillars of trust and
> tolerance.  The integrity of the project depends on the core community
> being passionate about quality and integrity, so that we can trust each
> other.  The harmony of our work depends on human understanding and
> forgiveness of errors.
>
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