On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Gregory Kohs wrote: >>> Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to >>> impose a "global ban" on a user? >> >> Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and he continues to enjoy broad >> community support. >> >> -- Tim Starling > > No he doesn't. However he didn't actually impose a global ban in this > case but it is unlikely there are any significant wikimedia projects > that would not block the individual in question on sight.
Both the "yes he does" and "no he doesn't" sides are asserting and assuming rather than reporting a known quantity. There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number of individuals who assert that should happen, but there's no poll, no project, no policy proposal to do so. We simply don't know what the community actually feels about it, in part because Jimmy uses the power so sparingly that very very few people ever encounter it firsthand. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
