On 6/24/04 10:07 AM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
Abe (user:172) has asked me to inform the mailing list
that I have
"retracted" my request to ban him. I'd like to take this opportunity to
clarify a few points.
When I asked, "Can we ban 172 and VV?", I was using a rhetorical device.
What I sought was merely that ALL parties concerned, would be in
compliance with Wikipedia policy. Be cooperative, or be elsewhere:
nothing more, nothing less.
I've broken a lot of log jams at Wikipedia, and when I set out to do
something here I've always succeeded. If it's an article, I've always
been able to find a way to get all the contributors to agree on both the
process and the product. If it's a 'troublesome user', it's a bit more
involved.
Wow. Like George W. Bush, incapable of thinking of a single failure.
Ed, why don't you just admit that your question was inappropriate and
incendiary, instead of arguing that it somehow helps matters?