[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[George Herbert]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> a) 'challenging' and removing any references
>> b) instantly deleting the article for being unreferenced
>>
>
> In theory, an administrator "could" do this. "Technically".

This did happen at least once in the leadup to all this.

And, at least one case of a referenced article, which was in the
category anyways apparently by accident (not maliciously) getting
removed in the removal sprees.

The removals were sloppy.  That helped kick off the protests at the beginning.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com