[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 9 May 2010 09:50, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
> > On 5/8/10 5:38 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, MZMcBride<z at mzmcbride.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Most of the egregiously bad deletions were quickly overturned, and
> Jimmy
> >>> was
> >>> the one re-deleting the images. Now that he has agreed to stop, most of
> the
> >>> poor deletions have been re-reversed. I doubt Jimmy approves; there's
> >>> absolutely nothing in his actions over the past few days to suggest
> that he
> >>> does.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think you do Jimmy a disservice if you think he did not anticipate
> >> precisely this result.
> >
> > And I do approve.
> >
>
> This is absurd. You wheel-warred to re-delete numerous images, and had
> threatened to desysop anyone restoring them. You even said they
> couldn't be discussed until June! And now you say you approve of the
> Commons community reversing your bad deletions.
>

Sure, he tricked the press into thinking the images were permanently
removed, then when the story blew over, you added them back.  Everything
went perfectly according to plan.

Right Jimmy?