[WikiEN-l] Requesting assistance re user:Bastique

[Rich Holton]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 13/03/07, Sharon, Lois Bram <oneelephant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please, if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
>> User: One Elephant Went Out to Play...
> 
> 
> Hint: having also created User:Two Elephants Went Out to Play... two
> minutes later gives a strong impression of bad faith on your part. Not
> to mention the edits themselves.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 

I'm troubled by the course of the conversation that took place about 
this on WP:ANI. At least two people were asserting that one should not 
revert Danny because he's a foundation employee, or Kat Walsh, because 
of board membership.

There have been many, many assertions of late that we on Wikipedia do 
not (should not) give credit to credentials, but to the content of 
contributions. So it's disturbing to see these arguments used. Using 
these sorts of arguments does Wikipedia no favors, and contributes to 
the notion that there is a cabal that one should not cross lest one 
suffer the penalty.

Note that I have no comment (and have developed no opinion) on the 
content of the contributions of any of the parties involved in the 
original dispute.

-Rich Holton