[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[Phil Nash]

Larry Sanger wrote:
>> I'm sure I'll have more to say about posts to this list from the
>> last 24 hours or so, but I did want to respond to this.
>>
>> Various people said:
>>>>> So, please, both of you, get yourself some blogs and hash
>>> it out away
>>>>> from wikipedia servers, and away from community at large. We don't
>>>>> need it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rant over.
>>>> Thank you!
>>> Hear, hear (to both of you)!
>>
>> You are misunderstanding what's going on here.  Jimmy Wales has been
>> lying about me and my role in this project.  This is a SERIOUS
>> PROBLEM, and I frankly resent your implicit dismissal of my concerns.
>>
>> This isn't "just more of the same"; I am *not* asking for the
>> community's resolution on the issue of "who is founder."  That
>> really *would* be inane, but it isn't what I am doing.  You would
>> know this, by the way, if you had actually read my open letter to
>> Jimmy Wales.
>>
>> I am speaking out first time, publicly, by saying that Jimmy Wales
>> has been lying about me in a way that is self-serving.  If you don't
>> care about that, that's your prerogative.  You don't need to
>> announce to the world that you don't care.  There *are* a lot of
>> people who *do* care.  I'm speaking to *those* people.
>>
>> Moreover, I assert that it is my right to raise hell not only on
>> this list, but also on Jimmy Wales' user talk page--if this is
>> really an open, transparent, democratic project devoted to free
>> speech.

It is not, and you have no "right" to anything other than as an ordinary 
user of Wikipedia. [[WP:SOAPBOX]] and [[WP:POINT]] spring to mind. Your 
personal disagreements have no place either in Wikipedia or on this list, so 
I strongly advise you to take them elsewhere. As an Admin, I'd have no 
qualms about blocking you indefinitely if this does not immediately stop. 
Whereas you might also have sockpuppets and meatpuppets, their blocking 
would follow as sure as night follows day. But the bottom line is that this 
disruption is unseemly and intolerable. Some of us have an encyclopedia to 
build, and personal disputes are inimical to that purpose.

Please stop wasting our time.