[Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia

[Marc Riddell]

on 11/26/09 9:06 PM, Chad at innocentkiller at gmail.com wrote:

> We had that. They called themselves the "Association
> of Member's Advocates." They were disbanded because
> everyone saw them as a huge waste of time with 0 net
> benefit.
> 
Everyone? I'm not familiar with the one you mention, but, let's try again.

Marc Riddell

> 
> On Nov 26, 2009 8:56 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I already pointed out that you cannot impose "friendliness".  Our current
> state is one in which any particular admin may sit on any particular editor
> with or without adequate cause and that editor has nearly no power to affect
> a hearing.  There is no advocate for the editors who are not admins.
> 
> Until that situation changes, we cannot claim to be moving toward a friendly
> environment.
> 
> What we need is an Office of the Editor Advocate.  Any arrested person has
> the right to an attorney, provided free of charge by the state.  That is
> what we need.  Advocate-attorneys who are on the side of the arrested
> editor.
> 
Great idea!

MR