[WikiEN-l] Blocking badlydrawnjeff (was Re: Thoughts on#wikipedia - threat or menace?)

[Philippe Beaudette]

My thoughts (as a regular user - I'm not an admin) - 

I'm gravely disturbed by this whole process (or lack thereof).  Through my eyes, I see a political vendetta that was pursued within the ranks of the admins, who I would wish that I could trust implicitly, and my confidence in that is shaken.  There's nothing scary than a mob of villagers pursuing someone with torches.  My natural instinct is to jump into the fray on the side of the "wronged" party, but obviously, that's not appropriate here.

I have no opinion about Jeff - I think he probably serves a good purpose, as the agitator, and agitators often have detractors, but I hurt for him in this.  Further, I hurt for the people who made this decision; it's so difficult to be put in a position where you feel like you're driven to drastic action.  I wonder what it was that made them decide that our ordinary dispute resolution steps wouldn't work here?  Where is the consensus model in this?  Where did we, as a community fail?  DID we, as a community fail?  And, more importantly, how do we fix it to prevent it from happening again?

Jeff was wronged, there's no question in my mind.  I won't cry out for blood, but I'll ask for accountability, and I'll ask for the decision tree, so that we can figure out where our systems broke down, if they did.

I wonder about how we repair the damage that was done here - obviously, Jeff's unblocked, and that's A Good Thing.  But, what about the users like myself who see this action and worry about the unity and spirit of our admin corps?  How do we repair the shaken trust? I know these are people - flawed, like myself, but I expect a higher standard from admins.  Obviously, ArbComm's involved, and I think that's good.  I'd like to see users (not just the one who made the block, but including him/her) come forward and say "I was wrong, and I apologize".  

More than anything, this makes me sad.

Philippe
[[User:Philippe]]
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Lee 
  To: English Wikipedia 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking badlydrawnjeff (was Re: Thoughts on#wikipedia - threat or menace?)


  On 5/23/07, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au>
  wrote:
  >
  > [1] Who, I note, is a proud CVU member with a tonne of userboxen and a
  > WikiDefcon template on his userpage.  Correlation is not causation, I know,
  > but ... hmm ...


  Precisely what I was thinking.

  Johnleemk
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