Note: this was an offlist mail to me, which has been sent back to the whole list. Black
mark for etiquette on that.
I advise everyone against answering private mails from this poster.
Well, and what you say is absolutely not what you wrote to the list, then. You will gain
no respect at all from exaggerating and then shifting position when challenged.
Charles
From: "Parker Peters" <onmywayoutster(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2006/10/06 Fri PM 04:59:18 BST
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.
No.
I am asserting that polices, while they may have been well intentioned, have
the net effect of being a bureaucratic nightmare that makes it a virtual
impossibility that any course of action against an admin by a non-admin will
succeed.
That policies which were designed to safeguard admins from deliberate
harassment have become twisted into opposition of any investigation of admin
conduct whatsoever.
I'm forwarding this to en-l because I want these words to be clear to
everyone.
Cheers,
Parker.
On 10/6/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
You are asserting that
Every policy
(not some but all)
is designed
(i.e. deliberately set up)
to make it impossible
(not inconvenient, time consuming, legalistic)
for an aggrieved user to make any protest against abuse.
(you say _any protest_, not just an effective protest leading to action).
Well, that's hooey. Anyone can start an RfC. Show me an admin who sits on
an RfC and I'll take action on that myself.
Charles
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