-----Original Message----- From: Oskar Sigvardsson [mailto:oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 04:50 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [[Views of Lyndon LaRouche]] indefinitely full protected
On 10/21/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
It's not a routine protection; it's a longstanding, active, serious abuse case.
Even so, this is not what we've ever done! What this is is an effective elevation of admins into a specially protected "super"-editor class that have full powers to decide and control what goes in an article. That is NOT what an admin is supposed to do, article contents have always been decided by community consensus. It is a foundational issue, right up there with Free Content and NPOV.
This is counter to what wikipedia is. We're not Citizendium.
--Oskar
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I guess "anyone can edit" is the fundamental principle. However the article in question is being edited only by the operatives of an organization and a few others who have become expert regarding the organization. Essentially, one side of the debate is being carried on by sock and meatpuppets that never give up.
Fred