The question is not about your honesty, Mike, but the WMF board. In authorizing their statement, did they expect that Jimmy would take the sort of action he did? In practice they are the only ones who have any control over what actions he takes; I would expect that after an hysterical over-reaction like his giving their statement as justification, they would promptly act to explain that this is not what they meant by their statement. Rather, the initial reaction of at least some of the board were to support his actions.
It reminds me very much of the enWP's actions after the single handed mass deletion of BLPs. They too endorsed it. They cannot most of them have really thought that thoughtless action of that sort was the way to solve the problem, but they endorsed it anyway. In the eyes of many of us, by doing this they lost a good deal of their respect and legitimacy. The board is doing likewise, but it still has time to correct itself. I do not know who besides themselves could abolish a system-wide permission, and i call on them to end the founder permission because of its uniquely great potential for inappropriate use-- which would allow the various projects to do as they choose about the other permissions on their own projects. I continue to respect Jimmy's views more than that of any other single person here (except perhaps your own, Mike, based on your very judicious comments here), but that is not the same as giving any one person unchecked power over the project. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Mike Godwin <mnemo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Florence writes: > > Besides the fact Mike is using a language far too convoluted for many >> speakers on this list, > > > Ouch! If I do say something too convolutedly here, please send me a note, > and I'll rephrase accordingly. > > >> I would argue that one of the implications of the >> abusive deletions is that Jimbo is perceived as having "lost touch with >> base". I do not think letting someone speak on his behalf will help >> restore trust. >> > > Just to be clear about this: Jimmy didn't ask me to speak for him, and I > haven't represented here that I'm speaking for him. I'm only offering my > personal (convoluted!) point of view, trying to be helpful. > > > --Mike > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
