QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Mon 14th July 2008, 12:48am)
QUOTE(Cla68 @ Mon 14th July 2008, 12:06am)
I still believe that SV knew she was, at a minimum, stretching the truth with that statement. Even if not, she knew that it was a ridiculous example of poisoning the well and she apparently felt she was above any type of accountability or ethical standards for making statements such as that.
Certainly, Wikipedia promotes a opportunistic approach to making one's case, one which is amply on display in the evidence page of the arbitration.
I have three questions:
Would you agree that her fear of WordBomb and "stalking" (whatever the inadequacies of the term) was her primary concern, as she has invariably (to my knowledge) represented it, or would you suggest some other reason for her opposition?
If you would agree with this characterization, is it reasonable to allow that this fear compromised her judgment?
Finally, if she were to apologize, would it make a difference?
If SV was really afraid that I was supporting someone who was stalking her, I think she would have handled it much differently. My RfA occurred several months after I had been involved in discussion on the Weiss talk page and in an ANI thread about some uncivil editing on Mantanmoreland's part. In both cases, SV's comments towards me were extremely polite and professional. I thought the matter was closed. I had taken the Weiss article off of my watchlist and had decided not to get involved with any other discussions surrounding Mantanmoreland, deciding that I had better things to do than to continue involvement in that issue. During that time, SV never hinted that she thought that I had some hidden agenda or that I was supporting someone that she had a personal problem with.
So, when she got my RfA extended and made those comments, I was completely taken by surprise. From the sudden change in tone of her comments after her silence on the matter for several months, I believed her actions in my RfA were simple retaliation for getting involved in the Weiss issue, and an attempt to suppress an editor who had some knowledge of what was going on there.
An apology probably would have fixed it. After I posted the self-RfC on myself, I thought that it made her actions look so ridiculous and indefensible that she would have no choice but to apologize. Unfortunately, she chose to try to defend her actions, and a few other editors, infamous around here, chose to support her defense.
Now, this isn't about me anymore. Others have told me of other, good editors who have left the project or almost left because of her bullying and attacks. I myself have observed the way she treats or has treated some of the project's best editors, like Tim Vickers or Sandy Georgia, among many others, and find it just absolutely despicable. She owes a lot more people besides me an apology. In fact, I would say, much like OrangeMarlin recently did, that she needs to apologize to everyone for the way she has acted since the time she started participating in Wikipedia. Of course, a true apology also requires a promise not to repeat the behavior.
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