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

[Ray Saintonge]

Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 5:49 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:44:34 +0000, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
>>     
>>> In terms of what I said above. The principle ought to apply similarly.
>>> One can't say what happened on X media shouldn't be taken into account,
>>> if what happened on X is what caused you to carry out certain action on
>>> wiki.
>>>       
>> So: if one had evidence that, say, a banned user had asked an admin
>> in some external forum to undelete an article he had created while
>> evading his ban (CSD G5), and that admin then went on to undelete
>> the article for the banned user, do you think that should be
>> actionable?
>>     
> It *is* actionable.  People have been desysopped for conspiring with banned
> users.
Bullshit!  Such an action merely gives greater weight to the content of 
an article than to the person who wrote it.  Just as we don't accept 
that editors should have ownership over an article, so too should we not 
be granting ownership to the banned user.  By undeleting the article the 
particular admin accepts responsibility for the contents of the article 
irrespective of who originally wrote it.

Assuming that he is conspiring solely because of his undeletion requires 
a significant assumption of bad faith.

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