[WikiEN-l] Danger to the community (Poor, Edmund W, Jimmy Wales)

Wed Oct 15 21:40:10 UTC 2003

Some of you may have noticed that, seeing my name nominated for the 
mediator committee, I posted a comment on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mediator/candidates
If that comment isn't clear enough, I want to be especially clear about this:
1) I have not been following the list-serve discussions closely lately, for 
a variety of personal reasons.  When I saw the "proposal" for this 
committee I (incorrectly) assumed that it is an idea you all have been 
kicking around; I also (incorrectly) understood "mediator" to refer to 
Jimbo, not to another specific user.  To whatever extent my comment on that 
talk-page is positive, it is because of these incorrect assumptions.
2) In that comment I expressed my own wariness at any anonymous, 
institutionalized, committee of mediators.
For the record, I agree entirely with Ed and Jimmy's recent comments.  If 
this proposal is the work of one user (let alone a formerly banned one), 
and was not the product of a considered discussion on these pages, I think 
serious action against that page should be considered.

Steve

Steven L. Rubenstein
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bentley Annex
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701
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