[WikiEN-l] Missed Opportunities to have avoided the Durova Case

[David Gerard]

On 27/11/2007, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>Alec:

>> bad sign, IMO. I no longer feel confident that "the system works."
>> There's an ArbCom election coming up, can you imagine the damage that
>> would be done to ArbCom's credibility if it were to come out afterward
>> that members that were up for election were involved in this and their
>> involvement was known but we weren't told about it before voting?
>> The secrecy is what's most toxic. Maybe we should start applying
>> Verifiability outside of just the encyclopedic content.

> What's toxic here is how quickly some people fall into the same logical
> errors I fell prey to, unaware of the irony that they practice exactly the
> same faults they criticize.
> Confirmation bias is a dangerous thing.  Extraordinary claims require
> extraordinary evidence.


Indeed. Start with an assumption of bad faith and extrapolate from
there, and you have Wikipedia Review.

Working definition of "cabal": group of people talking that the
labeler isn't in.


- d.