[WikiEN-l] Re: Hi

Wed Jul 6 22:53:23 UTC 2005

Let me try to follow your logic:

1. The post contains criticism of an admin.
Therefore:
2. It has no merit, since by definition, criticism of
an admin is either querulous or abusive and should be
ignored.

Well done! Great thinking!

--- JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >From: Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com>
> >
> >On 7/6/05, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >From: "A. Nony Mouse"
> <temoforcomments4 at hotmail.com>
> > > >
> > > >I hereby propose an alternate policy:
> Page-based 3RR. If the same 
> >phrase is
> > > >reverted from a page three times in 24 hours,
> then that PAGE shall be
> > > >locked for a week and all editors involved in
> the reverts shall receive 
> >a
> > > >12-hour block to cool off.
> > >
> > > What a bad idea; it allows any editor to hold
> pages hostage essentially
> > > indefinitely, even if opposed by dozens of other
> editors.
> > >
> > > Jay.
> >
> >Perhaps you could add your thoughts for improvement
> instead of solely 
> >criticism?
> 
> Perhaps your suggestions regarding criticism would
> be better directed to the 
> alternately querulous and abusive individuals who
> don't seem to be able to 
> do much on Wikipedia except get themselves blocked,
> taken before the 
> Arbitration Committee, or banned, but regularly
> inundate this list with 
> complaints about how nothing on Wikipedia is working
> because of the admin 
> cliques who are constantly abusing their powers.
> 
> Oh, and here's my thought for improvement: "If it
> ain't broke, don't fix 
> it".
> 
> >If we kept the "standard" 3RR in addition to a new
> page based revert
> >rule, one editor certainly could not hold pages
> hostage.  I didn't see
> >anything in the previous proposal that suggested
> throwing away the old
> >(but actually pretty young) 3RR rule.
> 
> A page that is constantly kept locked by the actions
> of one individual 
> against a huge consensus of other editors is one
> held hostage.  See 
> [[Apartheid]] for an example.
> 
> Jay.
> 

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