I must disagree with Risker that this is simply a local issue involving a single project or with a previous editor who feels that English Wikipedia can take care of itself. We have a serious lack of editors not only on English Wikipedia but within the project as a whole and this is getting worse rather than better. The foundation has been putting great efforts into attracting editors and Will's case touches on the issue of recruitment and retention of editors to the project as a whole and thus is directly relevant to the WMF. We have had issues with how some admins treat new editors to the movement and it seems we also have issues with how some of our long standing editors are dealt with specifically by Arbcom. If we base our decisions on isolated behavioral matters exclusively without taking into account content issues or the contribution histories of the editors in question this institution will make bad decisions for the project and the movement as a whole.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
