Not sure what's funnier. http://www.larouchepac.com/static/2007/12/10/what-wikipedia.html or the response to it here....
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
He also has, separately from his Board role, the final smackdown on en:wp, which he almost never uses (it's delegated to the Arbitration Committee because Jimbo doesn't scale) and which causes great arguments every time he does.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who see his comments on either side of a dispute as so much drive-by. Given the amount of his travelling, his participation in some of these chronic debates is necessarily limited.
I find myself amazed at how outsiders think Jimbo has absolute power at Wikipedia, when if he said the sky was blue lots of people would disagree almost by reflex ... and then it's down to his powers of persuasion, same as if any of us want to convince people of something. I suppose he has a lot more ears listening to him.
There's a certain amount of hero-worshiping going on, whether he agrees with it or not. It's more like a game of Simon says. There are any number of debaters who are not past trying to win an argument saying, "But on September 30, 2004, Jimbo said ..." He may have changed his mind since, or the quotation may be out of context. Such drop-dead arguments from authority tend to circumvent whatever the real current issue.
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