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

[Sam Blacketer]

On 11/27/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 5:02 AM, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was her responsibility-- but it was their responsibility too.  She
> > drew upon the authority of others several times in justifying her
> > block.   The fact that arbiters had endorsed the block was implied if
> > not outright stated.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, to the degree that Durova meant to imply
> that, she was simply flat-out wrong. I cannot speak to what Durova
> meant to imply; you should ask her on that.
>
> No arbitrator to my knowledge gave any kind of endorsement.  I
> certainly did not.


To the best of my recollection and having gone back to look at some of the
discussion, Durova never claimed that arbitrators had endorsed the block.
She simply said that they had seen the evidence, as for instance here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=172306965

-- 
Sam Blacketer
London E15