[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[David Goodman]

Arb Com at this point seems very willing to encourage arbitrary action
by administrators, when we really need to be be moving in the opposite
direction, of requiring greater admin responsibility and care. In this
case,  care in deleting, to make sure that the material is not
sourceable. The mass deletions were some of them done without the
least attention to the actual contents of the article and the
likeliness of easy sourcing, and arb com is currently saying that this
does not matter. and that our prior rule that this sort of deletion
only applied to deleterious material has been superseded, on the basis
that there might be something hidden--a proposition for which there is
not a single example.

What we do need is a sensible way of dealing with the problem in a way
that encourages the preservation of what content can be preserved, and
this is being discussed at the current RfC for BLP.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com> wrote:
>> "Community consensus" isn't a valid reason to violate BLP. en:wp is
>> a top-5 website of massive impact, not a personal playground
>> enjoying something akin to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so.
>
> True.
>
> Emily
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:50 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/21 Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>:
>>
>>> As I understand it, a bunch of adminstrators deleted a bunch of
>>> articles that they felt violated BLP aganist community consensus.
>>
>>
>> "Community consensus" isn't a valid reason to violate BLP. en:wp is a
>> top-5 website of massive impact, not a personal playground enjoying
>> something akin to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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