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

[Matthew Brown]

On Nov 27, 2007 8:35 AM, Relata Refero <refero.relata at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are setting up a false contradiction. 'Collusion', in Bryan's words,
> might have existed off the public list, once the evidence has been presented
> to the entire set. Matthew specifically laid that possibility open, in fact.

More accurately, no third parties can prove or deny one-to-one
communications between any pair of editors or admins.  I can't, you
can't; only an involved party knows.

If an admin is going to make a block based on anything other than pure
vandalism or something else incredibly obvious, I hope they DO talk to
people about it.  As much as possible.  Ironically, in this case, if
Durova had actually discussed this block on either of these mailing
lists, it's possible someone would have dissuaded her from it.

-Matt