[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[David Gerard]

On 28/05/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> But, then, I've also developed some doubts about your own judgment
> given your activity on this list last week, when you developed out of
> whole cloth an entirely bizarre interpretation of [[WP:BLP]] that
> held that this policy could be used as a Harry-Potter-esque magical
> incantation by any admin in order to take unilateral action that
> would not be permitted to be questioned, debated, reversed, or
> subjected to any sort of process or consensus save the unlikely
> possibility of a full-blown ArbCom case.  The fact that nothing in
> the actual wording of the policy itself even hinted at this
> interpretation didn't faze you one bit, though you later backed down
> after a storm of controversy here.


What on earth? It's been practice since WP:BLP was instituted.


- d.