[WikiEN-l] Admins who abuse their powers

Mon Feb 14 01:39:26 UTC 2005

Bjorn, the page in question [[Jewish ethnocentrism]] was the page
Stormfront and the other white-supremacist websites were discussing in
terms of creating user accounts to have the vote changed. It was
therefore a sensitive page, with arguably anti-Semitic content and,
also arguably, a POV title. There was a vote 48-13 to delete it. You
were one of those wanting to keep it. It was therefore deleted,
entirely properly. Another editor took it through a vote to undelete
it. The "keep delete" vote was decisive. There were only two votes to
keep, one from the editor who proposed it at VfU, and one from you as
User:Palestine-info. And yet a few days later, an admin took it upon
himself to recreate it; at first just as a redirect to another article
containing some of the same anti-Semitic content, but he later started
to rewrite it; and then he hampered all attempts by other admins to
delete it again. It isn't right that someone should do this just days
after two solid votes; otherwise there's no point in having the votes.
And the planned interference of Stormfront makes the issue more
sensitive than it would otherwise be.

Sarah

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:02:26 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I do think it is OK for someone to create an article with
> the same name as a previously deleted one as long as the new article
> isn't more or less a copy of the deleted one.