On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:46:40PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up, Vicki. I don't
have a problem with that.
If things were the way Vikki said they were, that would be fantastic.
The incident with Ed Poor that I referred to was where he was helping
edit an article, then noticed an edit war, and froze the page.
After the page was frozen there were howls of protest from Eric, Ortolan88
and so forth that he had left the page in a "biased" form. On THEIR
request he took the disputed text out entirely, until such time as the
page could be unprotected.
Then he got attacked by these individuals for doing the very thing they
had begged him to do previously.
What I'm trying to say, Zoe, is that you can't win unless you are
willing to stick to your guns. Do what you feel is the right thing for
the Wikipedia, and I will back you up.
Jonathan
At 02:43 PM 2/8/03 -0800, Zoe wrote:
I have no problem with Erik's provisos,
they're pretty much what I
would
have done anyway. Except for being a moderator,
not an editor. Are you
saying you don't want me working on any articles on my own? If that's
what you're saying, I can't live with that.
That's not what it means. It just means that we (sysops) need to
separate
our editing
from our adminning/sysop work. If I think an article needs protection
from
vandals, _I
stop editing it myself_. This is to avoid the temptation to use sysop
powers unfairly in
an edit war.
It doesn't mean I can't edit pages, or that you wouldn't be able to.
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