[Foundation-l] WMF, and implications of non-discrimination on local projects?

[Marc Riddell]

on 9/26/08 11:36 AM, Pharos at pharosofalexandria at gmail.com wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> It's a community thing. On en.wikibooks, our bureaucrats simply won't
>>> pay attention to irrational and poorly supported votes. Bureaucrats
>>> are able to use their judgement to consider the quality of votes above
>>> the sheer quantity of them.
>> 
>> In theory enwiki is the same. It doesn't really matter, anyway -
>> presumably it's just one vote, enwiki RFAs have high enough turnout
>> that one vote is rarely going to make much difference.
> 
> Obviously no sane Bureaucrat is going to count a vote that says,
> "Opppose- we shouldn't let in any sysops who can't RSVP with St Peter
> and the Heavenly Choir for that great Wikimania in the sky".
> 
> I think this is a non-issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pharos
> 
At last sanity prevails!

(Although I would be interested in talking with a person who would base
their vote on a totally non-religious issue, on strictly religious grounds.
I can't help it, I was born curious :-))

Marc