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Daniel Brandt |
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I just put this on Katefan0's Talk page:
QUOTE I request that you identify yourself on your user page as (name redacted), employed as a reporter by Congressional Quarterly and accredited through them by the Senate Press Gallery. I also request that you provide a current photo on your user page. I believe that your failure to identify yourself violates the spirit of journalistic ethics. Administrators should not be anonymous on Wikipedia in light of their power to shape content. --Daniel Brandt Half an hour later: My comment is gone, no trace in history, page is protected. Golly, if I can't send her a message this way, should I send it to her editor at Congressional Quarterly? What do you think I should do? |
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I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial or bullying admin? Or was she just working constructively to build the encyclopedia? From reading this thread I can't see anything that she did wrong, and I find it distressing that she's been treated this way--of course, I am a firm believer in the importance, even necessity, of editor anonymity, quite unlike Brandt, so perhaps it is just a philosophical difference based on that alone. But anyone, I think, can see the concern inherent in one person's philosophical position, like Brandt's, causing serious problems for people in this way, and by extension affecting the encyclopedia as a whole.
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I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial or bullying admin? Or was she just working constructively to build the encyclopedia? I don't know the ins and outs of this case, and I've previously suggested that it is not necessary to chase after all the admins, but the fact that she got a message of sympathy from SlimVirgin suggests Daniel Brandt is doing something right. It is necessary to increase the level of accountability in the Wikipedia project one way or another. |
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I don't know the ins and outs of this case, and I've previously suggested that it is not necessary to chase after all the admins, but the fact that she got a message of sympathy from SlimVirgin suggests Daniel Brandt is doing something right. It is necessary to increase the level of accountability in the Wikipedia project one way or another. Well I also see MusicalLinguist giving a great deal of support and she's a problem admin. But without some specific reason to chase after Katefan0, I have to express my severe reservations.Wikipedia is just a website. Having status on WP is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things except for Jimbo who gets all the glory (and takes all the flak). But losing your job is a big deal. I know a bit about Washington and it's a town where if you fall off the ladder, things can get real tough real fast. Destroying someone's career or life is not something that should be done lightly. If you want to talk ethics, ask yourself just what sort of ethical code allows you to do this just to prove some point. This post has been edited by Skyring: |
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I don't know the ins and outs of this case, and I've previously suggested that it is not necessary to chase after all the admins, but the fact that she got a message of sympathy from SlimVirgin suggests Daniel Brandt is doing something right. It is necessary to increase the level of accountability in the Wikipedia project one way or another. Well I also see MusicalLinguist giving a great deal of support and she's a problem admin. But without some specific reason to chase after Katefan0, I have to express my severe reservations.Wikipedia is just a website. Having status on WP is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things except for Jimbo who gets all the glory (and takes all the flak). But losing your job is a big deal. I know a bit about Washington and it's a town where if you fall off the ladder, things can get real tough real fast. Destroying someone's career or life is not something that should be done lightly. If you want to talk ethics, ask yourself just what sort of ethical code allows you to do this just to prove some point. Ohhhhh a nice wiki-reversal tatic...... Our ethic's was pointing out that Kathy did not identify herself as a professional journalist working on the Senate floor with access to information that might have beeen used to favour one political party over another. Editing political articles including current Members of Congress where she should have not been in the first place. Further she edited and even went so far as to protect articles pertaining to the Members of Congress which is certainly a bias approach in her ethical position as a Journalist on the Senate Floor. I could go on and on but I am sure you still will not get that no matter how many times I have repeated that here. Ethically speaking say you are a member of some great importance and me as a journalist with inside information or an agenda to to smear you or praise you and I edit your article on WP under the adminship role. I know your dirt or I know your praise and make edits according to the will that bends me. Is that ethical? NO is not. Still don't get it? Take some ethic course's for journalist then. |
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