[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

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On 5/28/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
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> On 28 May 2007 at 14:05:34 +0000, "Fred Bauder"
> <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm disappointed that you've joined the enraged mob with torches
> that's abusing Gracenotes' RfA because he insists on a thoughtful,
> nuanced approach to "bad site" linking instead of war-on-drugs-style
> zero tolerance.  It's especially disappointing given that some of
> your own past writings on the topic have seemed to advocate the same
> sort of carefully considerate, non-knee-jerk approach that you're
> saying he "doesn't get it" for having himself.
>
> 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.
>
> I guess if you're willing to hand all admins such absolute, nearly
> unreviewable power, then it would indeed follow that you then should
> insist on imposing political litmus tests on admin candidates to make
> sure that this power is only given to the ones who are politically
> correct.
>
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Are you talking about any particular article?