[WikiEN-l] Fleshlight

Tue Oct 10 18:02:43 UTC 2006

On 10/10/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > Kris & Adrian wrote:
> > > So it did have a reference to WP:OFFICE then.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry Jimmy but what you've written above has to be the worst case
> > > of whitewashing ever.
> > >
> > > "It wasn't WP:OFFICE but it was."
> >
> > AGF, please.  That is not what I said.  Danny has made it very clear in
> > the past that he has two accounts.  One he uses for WP:OFFICE actions,
> > i.e. actions taken temporarily by the office based on some emergency
> > situation (usually but not always legal in nature).  And his normal
> > account, which he uses as every other editor on the project.
>
> The problem is that the consequences of guessing wrong about if a
> particular edit by the [[User:Danny]] account is a WP:OFFICE action
> being kept discrete or not are so severe that nobody wants to risk it.
> As a result, any sudden, wildly-out-of-process action by either
> account is assumed to be Office-related.
>

Very true, very true.

Parker