2018-08-09 12:10 GMT+03:00 Fæ <fae...@gmail.com>: > > > No Amir, you cannot build a logical post-hoc rationale for this block > for the debatably single inappropriate use of WTF, if it hangs on > cherry picking an essay from the English Wikipedia as "positive > evidence", while choosing to ignore "negative evidence" published at > the same place, such as a WMF Trustee using "fucking bullshit", along > with prior precedent of justifying far more vulgar language in on-wiki > debate. > > ... And these are bad examples that shouldn't be followed, and Mr Wales was widely criticized for that. Would it be appropriate to ban him? Maybe.
But giving an example of a powerful leader that did a bad thing as justification for doing the bad thing again doesn't sound like the right thing to do if we agree that the thing is, indeed, bad. And it is. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
