Hello again, Wil. It's obvious that I'm not going to change your mind - nor is it my place to do so. But there /is/ one question of you that I would be remiss to not answer:
On 05/23/2014 11:49 PM, Wil Sinclair wrote: > If they are exposing serious problems > that desperately need fixing, then what does it matter what their > motives are? Because their priorities are out of whack. By their obsession over nits and trying to find things to hold against the projects and their participants, they necessarily will uncover things that need fixing... Over and before the numerous much larger, much more complicated and much more *important* things that need fixing that are plain for everyone to see but just don't happen to be usable as weapons against others. (Systemic bias, participation by women, the changing editor landscape, increasing PR manipulation... I could go on all day). Also, they harp repeatedly on the same points over and over that have been "asked and answered" by the community, the discussion of which has repeatedly shown to be both unproductive and cause for strife. Given that strife is their *objective* that is perfectly predictable -- but that's not a worthwhile endeavor for someone who wants to be a productive participant in the movement. Case in point is their obsession with imagining that the project are replete with pedophiles and pedophile-enablers, focusing on what they hallucinate is a lack of diligence in handling the matter because we do so discretely. So perhaps you can understand why you emerging from WO with questions about "child protection" rang all sort of alarm bells. You didn't look like you were genuinely curious but as though you were simply aping one of their calls for war. Coming from most anyone else, it'd have been dismissed as simple trolling - but you are *not* anyone else. Like it or not, you are the spouse of the most visible person of the movement and what you do will always be associated with what Lila does. Imagine a little what your reaction would be if the spouse of your local chief of police was publicly socializing with known gang members? Yes, you are your own person -- but you do not live in isolation and the motives of who you hang out with *does* matter. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
