[WikiEN-l] Featured editors?

[David Gerard]

On 11/11/2007, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu schrieb:
> > Quoting Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at>:

> >>> There isn't much of an issue here of a moral panic. The people we
> >>> are dealing with, such as Brandt, Bagley and Barber will stop at
> >>> nothing until
> >>> they get precisely what they want out of Wikipedia or destroy the project.
> >>> There is no acceptable response other than to block them on sight.
> >> We won't stop before we get precisely what we want either.
> >> Though we've got the power to block.
> >> Sounds like a battle to me.
> > If you wish to use that framework, you are welcome to. If it is a
> > battle, it is
> > a battle between those who wish to provide free, neutral information to
> > humanity and those who would see that goal either thwarted or perverted.
> So we are back to:
> "Either you are with us ("good") or you are with the thwarted or
> perverted ("evil")." IMHO this is both wrong and way too simple.


No, it was phrased that way by those opposing the block on querulous
long-banned users, by claiming such blocks were an example of this. It
appears you have not read the whole thread.


- d.