I want + Fae's recent post which is attached below.

> From: fae...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:54:03 +0000
> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message from Arnnon Geshuri to the Wikimedia       
> Community
> 
> On 26 January 2016 at 19:07, Arnnon Geshuri <agesh...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> ...
> > Regarding the concerns that have been raised, I have listened closely.
> > That said, in my opinion, there are some misconceptions and there are
> > mitigating considerations.
> 
> There are black and white facts which make you unsuitable to be a WMF
> trustee, and which the board of trustees who appointed you were not
> all aware of beforehand because you did not think that your key role
> in the antitrust scandal was an issue of ethics worth explaining. Your
> email statement does not address these key problems and manages to use
> a lot of peacock prose which when struck out amounts to "Wikimedians
> should move along now, nothing to see".
> 
> Press coverage like the BBC's this evening which leads with Jimmy
> Wales' face, have damaged the WMF's reputation and our projects that
> rely on "Wikimedia" remaining a trusted name.[1][2] As Pine has stated
> here, "your membership on the Board presents significant and
> unnecessary risks", though the fact is that your failure to resign
> gracefully is not a risk, but a major incident and an embarrassment.
> 
> Resign your unpaid trusteeship now, as you should have done a
> fortnight ago, and save your fellow trustees the indignity of trying
> to justify their bad governance in your appointment, rather than
> honestly admit failure and reverse their decision.
> 
> Links
> 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35411208
> 2. 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/editors-demand-ouster-of-wikimedia-board-member-involved-in-no-poach-deal/
> 
> P.S. How is that nobody can work out who nominated/invited Geshuri for
> the trustee position? There can be little doubt that they knew of his
> chequered past when they did so.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Fae
> -- 
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
> 
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