[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[Fred Bauder]

Thanks for the heads-up. Bottom line, this guy doesn't get it. How hurtful external attacks can be to Wikipedia users. He has minimal commitment to taking effective action, maximum commitment to dissimulation.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 07:31 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on
>
>Another thing in the subject of the BADSITES controversy, take a look 
>at this Request for Adminship:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Gracenot
>es
>
>(not to be confused with [[User:Grace Note]], a totally separate 
>person, and one who actually is one of the opposers in the above 
>nomination; interestingly, though "Grace" is usually a girl's name, 
>they're both guys, which shows you can never reliably infer gender 
>from usernames)
>
>This user has been the subject of a massive piling-on of oppose 
>votes, most of them coming simply because he refuses to take a 
>totally politically correct position favoring the draconian, zero-
>tolerance policy on removing links to so-called "attack sites".
>
>Despite (or maybe because of) this, he's also got more support votes 
>than any other current RfA (it's currently 161 to 60, meaning that 
>101 more people support him than oppose him), but this might not be a 
>high enough percentage to satisfy whoever closes the RfA (is there a 
>set percentage, or is it just up to a subjective value judgment like 
>most other debate-closing on Wikipedia?)
>
>There are some people in the Support column who are notable for 
>saying that they oppose him on the attack-sites issue but still don't 
>consider it a "litmus test" that bars their support for him (after 
>all, having administrator's tools has little or no connection with 
>one's beliefs or actions regarding attack-site links... adding, 
>dropping, restoring, and edit-warring over such links does not 
>require admin powers). However, a bunch of others seem to be single-
>issue voters determined to torpedo any prospective admin who doesn't 
>toe the line entirely.
>
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