From: "Karl A. Krueger"
<kkrueger(a)whoi.edu>
Being expected to explain actions that appear to be in conflict of
interest is _not_ persecution. It is "trust, but verify". The
community does in fact place trust in the administrators (otherwise,
they would not be the administrators). However, when an issue like this
comes up, we need that trust to be verified.
I would prefer to know for certain that nothing corrupt went on here.
However, until there is a good and credible explanation offered, none of
us can know that, and we are left with only ugly suspicions on one side
and baseless feelings of persecution on the other.
Wikipedia has a number of mechanisms for investigating cases of alleged
admin abuse; WikiEN-l is not one of them.
Jay.