Giacomo M-Z wrote: > Charles, please try and obtain some proportion, Wikipedia is one of > billions of internet sites, changing one's name and/or concealing > one's identity from the masses who surf the internet is not a "major > breach of trust" - swindling one's Granny in real life out of a > million dollars is a "major breach of trust." > > What exactly has he done that is so heinous and terrible apart from > make the Arncom/Jimbo look a little silly. Was his work on the Arbcom > so terrible? - I certainly don't recall you mentioning that it was - > are his mainspace edits so dreadful? - No. He edited David Cameron's > page - that is all - nothing more. For all we know David Cameron may > be on the Arbcom himself. It needs to be pointed out that Blacketer > was assuming perfectly legitimately a pseudonym and merely exercising > his right to edit the page - even if it was POV (and I'm not saying it > was), it was not grossly so. This is what needs publicly explaining > and the projects reputation restoring. > > Giano Surprise - you and I seem to hold different ethical views.
I didn't comment on SB as Arbitrator, for the good reason that most of what I know of that comes from a confidential email list. WP is not one of a billion websites, but one of the top 10 in the world. The business is analogous to the Essjay scandal; for which I was asked at about 20 minutes notice to talk to an ABC reporter on the phone, to add our spin to a story. Back in the thread, I was saying that this is what can be done in these circumstances. You, on the other hand, are dismissive of exactly that approach. I do not think it helpful to argue, in relation to the SB story, that "Wikipedia is one of billions of internet sites, changing one's name and/or concealing one's identity from the masses who surf the internet is not a "major breach of trust" ". This would not aid our cause if printed: being dismissive of issues of trust makes the person concerned look sleazy. Frankly, that's the argument of a low-life, shrugging shoulders. Apparently anyone who allows you to proceed with mockery is somehow not so bad a person. I beg to differ. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l