On 4/22/06, John Tex <johntexster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
JimboWales said:
Since WP:OFFICE is done publicly and under intense
scrutiny from the
community and the external world, I hardly see any need for a special
narrow committee to be specifically tasked with overseeing it.
It seems that this was not true in this particular case. Danny did not add
the WP:OFFICE tag. There was every indication that it was not an office
action. If it was a WP:OFFICE action, why did Danny not tag it as such?
What should people do when they see a WP:OFFICE
action? Treat it as a
call for attention from the absolute best within ourselves, the absolute
best within our community.
That makes perfect sense but again there was originally no indication this
was a WP:OFFICE action. So, the question I think many of us want answered
is, "What should people do when they see something appears to NOT be an
office action"?
Johntex
Combining this with the discussion of defamation, and Wikitruth, maybe
there is a simple solution. Give Danny and other agents of Wikimedia
special powers which can't be overridden by admins. Let them protect
pages in a way that they can't be unprotected by admins, and let them
delete defamatory information, copyright violations, and other legally
problematic material, permanently, in a way that the information can't
even be read by admins.
Any idea how hard it would be to implement such a thing, Brion?
Anthony