| Revision as of 18:05, 3 December 2008 view source68.163.97.167 (talk) These are serious questions that any project purporting to represent the sum of all human knowledge needs to reckon. How can you blithely ignore the lessons of four millenia of human history?← Previous edit | Revision as of 19:44, 3 December 2008 view source GoneAwayNowAndRetired (talk | contribs)14,896 editsm Reverted 1 edit by 68.163.97.167 identified as vandalism to last revision by Rootology. (TW)Next edit → | ||
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| #: I'm unfortunately tied into a (now thankfully superceded) rather troublesome and ] RFAR ] way, way back in 2006. Relative ancient history, now. I saw things weren't going to what I perceived as fair or right, so I made sure I was blocked afterwards in a stupid protest of trying to be as outrageous as possible with my final 2006 edits (it's all in my contribs, and all ancient). I've since apologize at length for slamming the doors pretty hard in the summer of 2006, but as of yet the two people who I slammed the door haven't yet acknowledged that, which I wasn't expecting. Again, all ancient history to me. | #: I'm unfortunately tied into a (now thankfully superceded) rather troublesome and ] RFAR ] way, way back in 2006. Relative ancient history, now. I saw things weren't going to what I perceived as fair or right, so I made sure I was blocked afterwards in a stupid protest of trying to be as outrageous as possible with my final 2006 edits (it's all in my contribs, and all ancient). I've since apologize at length for slamming the doors pretty hard in the summer of 2006, but as of yet the two people who I slammed the door haven't yet acknowledged that, which I wasn't expecting. Again, all ancient history to me. | ||
| #: After ] was selected as John McCain's VP running mate, I, like about 99% of Misplaced Pages all at once began working on her article. That has now turned into another RFAR due to some pretty wild wheel warring, that I had nothing to do with. I laid out a bunch of and proposals that were well-received. I don't really have any other real conflicts on here. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 16:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC) | #: After ] was selected as John McCain's VP running mate, I, like about 99% of Misplaced Pages all at once began working on her article. That has now turned into another RFAR due to some pretty wild wheel warring, that I had nothing to do with. I laid out a bunch of and proposals that were well-received. I don't really have any other real conflicts on here. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">]</font> (<font color="#156917">]</font>)(<font color="#156917">]</font>) 16:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC) | ||
| ====Questions from Caprice==== | |||
| Please consider this question (which ] to the candidates for WMF Trustees)... | |||
| {{quotation|'''Question on Due Process''' | |||
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| Hidden in Misplaced Pages's Administrator's Noticeboard, there is a quote from ]: | |||
| {{quotation|''The thing is, the project doesn't DO due process. There is no reason to expect it. This is not a governance experiment, a society, or even fair.''}} | |||
| The question, in response to quotes like this, is: ''Should Misplaced Pages reform its regulatory structure to better respect modern society's concept of Civil Rights and Due Process?'' —Whiteknight (]) (]) 13:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)}} | |||
| In particular, should Misplaced Pages evolve its governance structure to at least catch up to where Thomas Jefferson and the Founders took us some 235 years ago, when they wrote into the US Constitution a prohibition against ] (the legal term corresponding to the of banning and indefinite blocking without due process). | |||
| If not, should Misplaced Pages evolve its governance structure to at least catch up to where ] defined the ] back in 1760 B.C. when he required that ] at trial? | |||
| {{quotation|'''First Law of Hammurabi's Code, 1760 B.C.''' | |||
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| 1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.}} | |||
| If not, should Misplaced Pages evolve to where Western Civilization has stood since the dawn of recorded history, where one could absolve themselves of the stigma of unproven charges of wrongdoing by engaging in a baptismal ablution ritual? | |||
| {{quotation|'''Second Law of Hammurabi's Code, 1760 B.C.''' | |||
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| 2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.}} | |||
| Fourthly, should there be some (perhaps more merciful) remedy for dealing with those who have treated editors harshly (e.g. by arbitrarily, capriciously, and summarily imposing unproven bans or indefinite blocks), in accordance with the ] ever carved into stone tablets? | |||
| {{quotation|'''Third Law of Hammurabi's Code, 1760 B.C.''' | |||
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| 3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.}} | |||
| Finally, in view of the ] to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content and to disseminate that educational content to students, teachers, and scholars around the world, should Misplaced Pages be modeling a more up-to-date governance practice than the pre-Hammurabic tribal overlordship that has come to dominate the absurd carnival of political soap operas of the Wikisphere's ]? | |||
| ] 16:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Rootology (talk · contribs) I'm six odd months back now (holy crap, has it been that long? Where the hell did 2008 go?) and, well, how am I doing? What needs work? Whats doing right? rootology (C)(T) 16:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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- Of your contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- I'm particularly proud of The Greencards which I began in 2006, and dove right back into upon returning. 200 edits later, it's (hopefully) going to get through it's third FAC now, and I'll be pushing this next for FAC, followed by this, which I'll be doing with Jmabel, and my eye on a couple others after that for FA, and actually have gotten a couple requests to get other things up there. I'm a terrible copyeditor, though, and you can see that I routinely misuse or abuse the English language. So, I will shamelessly beg, borrow, cheat, steal, offer to trade, and cry for copyediting help! I'd love to help out on reviewing FAs or GAs, but again, that copyediting thing is my Achille's heel. I'm particularly proud of getting The Paperboys to GA, since some of the sources were... challenging to find in order to build it. They were for many years relatively "underground" in the sourcing sense of the word.
- I like to think after being around since 2005 and for ages in the outside peanut gallery that I have a clue on policy discussion and meta-type things, and I hope it shows most of the time.
- Along the way, I became on administrator on Wikimedia Commons which I'm extremely proud of. I tend to focus in and specialize on flickr and copyvio issues related to that. I had applied for OTRS to help on these, as I'm (I hope) knowledgeable on copyright matters related to media and wanted to help on the perpetually backlogged Commons permissions queues. Maybe next time. rootology (C)(T) 16:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
- Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- I'm unfortunately tied into a (now thankfully superceded) rather troublesome and infamous RFAR here way, way back in 2006. Relative ancient history, now. I saw things weren't going to what I perceived as fair or right, so I made sure I was blocked afterwards in a stupid protest of trying to be as outrageous as possible with my final 2006 edits (it's all in my contribs, and all ancient). I've since apologize at length for slamming the doors pretty hard in the summer of 2006, but as of yet the two people who I slammed the door haven't yet acknowledged that, which I wasn't expecting. Again, all ancient history to me.
- After Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain's VP running mate, I, like about 99% of Misplaced Pages all at once began working on her article. That has now turned into another RFAR due to some pretty wild wheel warring, that I had nothing to do with. I laid out a bunch of evidence here and proposals here that were well-received. I don't really have any other real conflicts on here. rootology (C)(T) 16:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)