On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
You tend to add a drama factor of 10x to any discussion I've ever seen
you participate in, and it gets tiresome after a while. Give it a rest.
Why are you making this issue unnecessarily personal, Erik? This isn't about Fae, you, or even Timothy Sandole -- so give it a rest, okay?
Tomasz
Erik is right, and anyone who regularly reads this list (or especially the WMUK list) knows that he is right. Fae's legitimate points (of which there are many) tend to be obscured by the massively off-putting way in which he makes them.
That said, Fae's points (which are really your [Tomasz'] points, and better said by you in the blog post) are perfectly legit. You pointed out a couple of edits where it looks like Sandole was promoting the director of the Belfer Center. While many other edits seem useful and additive, those are concerning and point up the risks generally of paid editors (including WiRs). Sandole's disclosure of his link to the Belfer Center on his userpage does not solve the problem, though it does mostly satisfy the disclosure requirements of the ToU -- as it seems to have been the Belfer Center directing his actions and not the WMF.
Since Sandole says he wrote a comprehensive report on his WiR and submitted it to the WMF, when Erik gets that report publicized I'm sure things will become much more clear. Meanwhile, use of an accusatory or interrogatory tone towards WMF employees is probably not helpful, as it rarely is in professional communication.
~Nathan