[WikiEN-l] Wikiquette "committee"

Fri Oct 3 22:50:13 UTC 2003

You're right- it does say it should be able to ban Jimbo. Not likely to
happen.

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From: "Stevertigo" <utilitymuffinresearch2 at yahoo.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikiquette "committee"

> At first read, I thought it said,  "The mediation
> panel should be able to recommend a ban on Jimbo."
>
> That might be wishful thinking, but at least we can
> set this as one of the finite limits-- "No bans on the
> guy who owns the servers and the domain names."
> ~S~
>
> --- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > blairr wrote:
> >
> > >That's good for vandals, but what about problem
> > users.
> > >For things like strange edits (eg Nuuk/Godthab),
> > and users that have made
> > >POV changes, as well as other things.
> > >
> > >I like the idea of mediation by a select group of
> > users, as well as
> > >empowering these users, if the user-in-question
> > does not change their
> > >behavior, to orchestrate bans.
> > >
> > Simply making strange edits is not an offence.  Even
> > POV changes are not
> > in theselves offences.  How a person goes about
> > doing these things is
> > much more important.
> >
> > The mediation panel should be able to recommend a
> > ban to Jimbo or a
> > delegated person.  That recommendation could also
> > include a length of
> > time for the ban.  If they become involved directly
> > in the ban
> > themselves it could compromise their objectivity.
> >
> > Ec
> >
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