bathrobecabal.org is not even in the same ballpark as the airline example. In fact, comparing them at all is quite frankly moronic.
The .org was bought *after* the creation of the Wikipedia url, and it's maintained by a devoted Wikipedian who didn't want others subverting a url that applied to their self-categorization. It's not even group that does anything as a unit, it's actually a joke about taking a picure of yourself wearing a bathrobe.
On Jan 29, 2008 4:15 PM, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/01/2008, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think there is a problem, but if you do MfD is the way to go.
Personally, I don't see that a pass is being given to admins to violate policy because they are admins. It looks to me like it is a group of longtime and active contributors who are using some IAR leeway to have a little fun. The leeway is extended to them because I'm pretty sure pissing them off and having them leave would do a whole lot more damage than allowing a few subpages (using up how much space and bandwidth again?) to continue to exist. The issue of the domain name is a red herring - it has no practical effect on Wikipedia at all. It doesn't draw in outside users, it doesn't cost Wikimedia anything, it doesn't allow them any access they wouldn't otherwise have. Its basically the same as a tinyurl address or favorites link.
If they leave because a userspace page, which was not promoting collaboration on wikipedia articles, was deleted then they were *not valuable* to the encyclopedia. Its not like the encylopedia would be practically affected by a deletion of a social networking user page. It could however be affected if others figure out that admins aren't consistent and chuck a fuss because their Userspace pages were deleted for the same reason that page was kept in a shortened discussion.
When it becomes a focal point for their activity, a distraction for other users or a source of disruption I will of course join you in voting delete in an MfD.
Too soon for another MfD, you would just get the creators of the page voting Keep again and possibly pulling in loyalty votes as such. Maybe once discussion had died down here it would be reasonable to try again.
Peter
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