Erik Moeller wrote:
- Ed has repeatedly used his administrative powers to protect the page in
an attempt to prevent edit conflicts. At first, I had no problem with that, but now he is getting involved in the debate and locking the page from further edits to protect his version at the same time.
That sounds like a bad idea, and I'm sure Ed will not do this.
- Ed holds the position that, even if nobody disagrees with the fact that
Wagner was an anti-Semite, it should be attributed, even if the attribution is something as fishy as "is universally regarded as".
Well, that seems like a good way to compromise. It doesn't soft-pedal anything, but it gets us out of the business of making a potentially controversial judgment.
I don't know must about Wagner's anti-semitism (though I don't doubt it), so I don't know if anyone disputes it. Would Wagner have disputed it?
Furthermore, I consider Ed's use of his administrative privileges to protect articles he is involved in an abuse of said privileges. He should only use them in the way he initially did, as a "time out" to direct discussions in case of conflicts to the talk page, but he should not even do that if he states a position in the matter.
I agree that it's not good to use administrative powers "in the heat of battle".
Do you want sysop access, Erik? You should have it.
--Jimbo