[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo

Fri Nov 25 15:08:16 UTC 2005

I've already complained about what Jimbo has been doing on Wikibooks, so 
this isn't news.

Several of the Wikibooks that Jimbo was complaining about were deleted 
by him with the admin status he gave himself.  That by itself is OK, but 
he did it with a total disregard to the fact that ongoing community 
discussion about the modules is going on, and a complete ignorance of 
what it means to delete a Wikibook in its entirety.  Deleting Wikibooks 
is a very involved process, and removing [[b:Jokebook]] is going to be 
something that will take several hours to complete by a competent admin 
and deleting the front page is only going to make things worse.

I don't want to get into an edit war with of all people Jimbo himself, 
but this IMHO has gone way too far.  If he wants to serve some sort of 
political agenda and disregard the genuine efforts of the community that 
is building Wikimedia projects like Wikibooks, so be it.  He can write 
everything himself there if he wants to as well.

So long Wikimedia and all of the people here.  I have tried.  I hope 
things improve for the better in the future.

I hereby resign my position as admin on Wikibooks and I anticipate that 
I will be banned there as well.  Good luck in the future in ever trying 
to find people to keep this project going.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning