On 3 June 2011 17:21, Newyorkbrad <newyorkb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Poetlister is the level of case where project autonomy is an actively >> bad idea. e.g. en.wikiquote deciding to demonstrate their independence >> of en:wp by letting him onto the Checkuser list. Nice one.
> Not to digress, but in fairness to the folks active on Wikiquote, I don't > think that WQ User:Cato had been identified as Poetlister at the time he was > made a checkuser there. We had extremely strong suspicions, but the reasons some en:wq people gave for ignoring them was that they wouldn't be told what to do by en:wp. I suspect there is more than a little of that in current local wiki defiance of global bans. And it's really, really not a good idea. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l