Hoi,
John it was documented on the Administrators noticeboard. The "discussion"
ran for over two weeks. I feel no need to identify the admin, he is
typically the kind of person I greatly admire. If anything I object to the
way admins do not take responsibility for what happens. If anything the way
this whole controversy transpired proves how little of a community we are.
I have started and added a few items.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 31 July 2016 at 14:28, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which items, which admin, etc.
>
> A little context would help.
>
> If the items were appropriate, wait for the community to agree with you
> before recreating them.
>
> On 31 Jul 2016 17:50, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hoi.
>> Many items were created for Wikimania talks. They were created because
>> Wikimania talks represent the best practices of the Wikimedia projects. All
>> these talks were selected in a process to bring out the best our movement
>> has to offer in the many years Wikimania was held. All the persons who gave
>> these presentation are known by either their nick or their name as they
>> themselves identified them at the time of offering the presentation for
>> consideration/
>>
>> For whatever reasons a Wikidata admin removed these items without any
>> discussion. In the discussion that followed other people presented the
>> arguments why there are no valid arguments for this deletion. A request was
>> made repeatedly to undelete the items involved.
>>
>> Given the current state of affair there is little option but to recreate
>> these items. It must be noted that the current situation is problematic on
>> many levels. Among them it became clear that admins do as they wish and are
>> not held accountable for their actions. The only thing asked is for the
>> undeletion of items and some sober thought on what may be expected of a
>> Wikidata admin.
>> Thanks,
>> GerardM
>>
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