[WikiEN-l] Essjay RFC deleted

[George Herbert]

On 3/5/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> > Unsurprisingly I back David.  That page has an inglorious history:
> > started as a wildly out of process straw poll on whether to hang,
> > disembowel or burn the witch, moved to an RfC, refactored into a form
> > which was at least marginally compliant, but as David says never
> > properly certified - and in any case now moot since Essjay has "left
> > the building".  One more piece of navel fluff under the Wikipedia
> > microscope.
>
>
> It's hit DRV, where the lynch mob are now asserting that anyone who
> doesn't agree with them is too biased to comment:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_March_5#User:Essjay.2FRFC


There appear on first glance to be more "This deletion is going to
make us look bad" and "Transparency is important" and "Most of what
got deleted was substantial support for Essjay" than "David's a
(insert bad word)".


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com