"OTRS actions" (for lack of a better term) should always stand on their own merits. OTRS volunteers have no special authority to do anything that a regular administrator doesn't have. Thus, we do not make actions "per OTRS". In the final protection I did note the summary with a link to the OTRS ticket in case people decided to ask about it. It was for informational purposes only. But there was no "drama" before. Only a few edits and a few reverts (as well as the previous protections).
--- Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipe...@zog.org>wrote: > I don't see why they didn't indef-protect the entry with a reference to an > OTRS ticket. That eventually happened, but only after much drama, and after > branding a news agency "unreliable". > Michel > > 2009/6/30 Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> > > > Can I ask what policy this was done under? While I generally approve > > of the action here, it seems that the admins involved were not > > entirely following the letter or really entirely the spirit of > > Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. So how are they not > > technically rouge admins? > > > > So shouldn't there, if practical to do so, a policy for this kind of > > thing? At the very least that way the boundaries of what is and isn't > > acceptable can be discussed. > > > > I'm also left wondering whether there are any other similar things > > going on, either temporary activities, or extended ones; or whether > > there have been in the past. If administrators do things, how is a > > user supposed to know that they're doing it for a sensible reason, > > rather than some less savoury purpose? > > > > -- > > -Ian Woollard > > > > "All the world's a stage... but you'll grow out of it eventually." > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
