[WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Raymond [mailto:jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 05:10 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>
>On Wed, May 23, 2007 3:20 pm, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> Exactly and what I am doing is telegraphing my intention to enforce the
>> discretion it gives to users to delete controversial material which is
>> poorly sourced. and of administrators to stub or delete articles which
>> mainly consist of biased or malicious content.
>
>So, as an arbitrator, you are endorsing your own personal view on how a
>policy should be and encouraging others to act as you would like them to,
>even though your personal view on how the policy should be is a) in direct
>contravention with what's written and agreed upon by consensus, b) has not
>been presented to the community in any meaningful way, and c) had had a
>number of unrelated editors questioning it before a and b even occur.
>
>I can't be the only person who sees a problem with that.


I'm getting some feedback here. And thinking about it.

Fred