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Virgilio A. P. Machado

Virgilio A. P. Machado

[[wikipedia:en:User:vapmachado|vapmachado]] ^{[[wikipedia:en:User Talk:vapmachado|talk.cw]]} 01:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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:Virgilio, I think I'll have to echo the request of others. Could you explain to me specifically and briefly just what you are talking about? Speaking of human rights violations is a fairly extreme thing to do, and I'm pretty sure that admins aren't in a position to actually violate anyone's human rights. (Some might say that through page protection and blocks, they may violate the freedom of speech, but such a claim seriously misunderstands what the freedom of speech is all about.)

:Virgilio, I think I'll have to echo the request of others. Could you explain to me specifically and briefly just what you are talking about? Speaking of human rights violations is a fairly extreme thing to do, and I'm pretty sure that admins aren't in a position to actually violate anyone's human rights. (Some might say that through page protection and blocks, they may violate the freedom of speech, but such a claim seriously misunderstands what the freedom of speech is all about.)

:At the same time, of course if we turn the drama down a bit, it is always possible that admins on a particular project are pursuing unwise policies, or that you have personally been treated unfairly in some way. My ability to assist with that sort of thing is generally strictly in an advisory capacity, and also naturally limited wherever I have an inability to speak the language. I am often able, though, to facilitate a productive conversation that make go some distance towards healing a problem.--[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] ([[User talk:Jimbo Wales#top|talk]]) 08:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

:At the same time, of course if we turn the drama down a bit, it is always possible that admins on a particular project are pursuing unwise policies, or that you have personally been treated unfairly in some way. My ability to assist with that sort of thing is generally strictly in an advisory capacity, and also naturally limited wherever I have an inability to speak the language. I am often able, though, to facilitate a productive conversation that make go some distance towards healing a problem.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 08:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

::Thank you so much for your kind message. We agree that this is a serious matter and I appreciate you taking the time to look into it. I have no legal training. That's why my question was only if you would welcome and support my participation in an effort by the Wikimedia Foundation to address this problem effectively, within the Wikimedia community. Your message sounds like "Maybe, if..." and I consider that very encouraging.

::Thank you so much for your kind message. We agree that this is a serious matter and I appreciate you taking the time to look into it. I have no legal training. That's why my question was only if you would welcome and support my participation in an effort by the Wikimedia Foundation to address this problem effectively, within the Wikimedia community. Your message sounds like "Maybe, if..." and I consider that very encouraging.

::Virgilio A. P. Machado

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::[[wikipedia:en:User:vapmachado|vapmachado]] ^{[[wikipedia:en:User Talk:vapmachado|talk.cw]]} 23:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

::vapmachado ^talk.cw 23:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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:Virgilio, your accusations are outrageous and false to the point of making no coherent sense whatsoever. No one is violating anyone's human rights on Wikipedia. Please stop wasting people's time.--[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] ([[User talk:Jimbo Wales#top|talk]]) 11:16, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:Virgilio, your accusations are outrageous and false to the point of making no coherent sense whatsoever. No one is violating anyone's human rights on Wikipedia. Please stop wasting people's time.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:16, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::I disagree. Wikipedia is not only an important innovation in the distribution of knowledge; it is an important experiment in self governance of communities of interest. I think a measured study of the implications of the [[wikipedia:en:Universal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] for Wikipedia is well worth commissioning. --[[wikipedia:en:User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[wikipedia:en:User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]]) 11:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::I disagree. Wikipedia is not only an important innovation in the distribution of knowledge; it is an important experiment in self governance of communities of interest. I think a measured study of the implications of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights] for Wikipedia is well worth commissioning. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 11:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:::What??? Have you read it???? It was written because of people gassing others, butchering others, sending others to gulags, and raping them in front of their children! Go to Rwanda or Srebrenica and then come back with some clue. [[wikipedia:en:User:Seb az86556|Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556]] ^{[[wikipedia:en:User_talk:Seb_az86556|> haneʼ]]} 12:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:::What??? Have you read it???? It was written because of people gassing others, butchering others, sending others to gulags, and raping them in front of their children! Go to Rwanda or Srebrenica and then come back with some clue. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 12:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::Indeed.--[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] ([[User talk:Jimbo Wales#top|talk]]) 12:19, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::Indeed.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 12:19, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:::::Although some of the articles relate to freedom from torture, right to employment, etc, rights we are unlikely ever to need to enforce at Wikipedia, some are applicable to this community. It is a community. It does have governance, and a penal system where the penalty is exile. --[[wikipedia:en:User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[wikipedia:en:User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]]) 12:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:::::Although some of the articles relate to freedom from torture, right to employment, etc, rights we are unlikely ever to need to enforce at Wikipedia, some are applicable to this community. It is a community. It does have governance, and a penal system where the penalty is exile. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 12:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::::To compare not being able to edit on wikimedia projects to breaches of human rights trivialises the issue of human rights. It is an arugument that diminishes those who put it forward and is best dropped. [[wikipedia:en:Special:Contributions/62.25.109.195|62.25.109.195]] ([[wikipedia:en:User talk:62.25.109.195|talk]]) 13:20, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::::To compare not being able to edit on wikimedia projects to breaches of human rights trivialises the issue of human rights. It is an arugument that diminishes those who put it forward and is best dropped. 62.25.109.195 (talk) 13:20, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::::That's something of an over-dramatic way to phrase it. Your statement is true in the same way that "''Microsoft is a community. It does have governance, and a penal system where the penalty is exile.''" is true. Organizations – large and small, governmental, commercial, or volunteer – will ''all'' ask members or employees to leave if those individuals are working at cross-purposes to the goals of the group. Call it 'exile' if you want, but that's really over the top — as were Vapmachado's comparisons to cruel and unusual punishment or denial of a human being's status as a person in the UDHR. (Indeed, Wikipedia tends to be much more tolerant of individuals who act counterproductively and waste the time of their fellow editors than most organizations, and our 'exile' is very porous — one can return from it at any time by filling out a new name tag and ceasing to do whatever obnoxious thing led one to be banned in the first place.)

::::::That's something of an over-dramatic way to phrase it. Your statement is true in the same way that "''Microsoft is a community. It does have governance, and a penal system where the penalty is exile.''" is true. Organizations – large and small, governmental, commercial, or volunteer – will ''all'' ask members or employees to leave if those individuals are working at cross-purposes to the goals of the group. Call it 'exile' if you want, but that's really over the top — as were Vapmachado's comparisons to cruel and unusual punishment or denial of a human being's status as a person in the UDHR. (Indeed, Wikipedia tends to be much more tolerant of individuals who act counterproductively and waste the time of their fellow editors than most organizations, and our 'exile' is very porous — one can return from it at any time by filling out a new name tag and ceasing to do whatever obnoxious thing led one to be banned in the first place.)

::::::Wikipedia is explicitly [[wikipedia:en:WP:NOT|''not'' a democracy]]; it is a charitable organization that is building a free encyclopedia. While that goal is sometimes furthered by adopting principles reflecting the ''spirit'' of portions of the UDHR – we offer 'freedom of speech' insofar as it includes the ability to have open ''civil'' discussion of ''reasonable duration'' on topics ''related to article writing'', for instance, and admins tend to come down brutally hard (as appropriate) on editors who discriminate against their fellows on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation – Wikipedia is not and should not be mistaken for a government or legal system, any more than the [[wikipedia:en:Red Cross|Red Cross]] or [[wikipedia:en:IBM|IBM]] should. Ultimately, our policies are driven by a desire to produce a better encyclopedia; that's the bottom line. Government is for the politicians. [[wikipedia:en:User:TenOfAllTrades|TenOfAllTrades]]([[wikipedia:en:User_talk:TenOfAllTrades|talk]]) 15:22, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

::::::Wikipedia is explicitly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WP:NOT ''not'' a democracy]; it is a charitable organization that is building a free encyclopedia. While that goal is sometimes furthered by adopting principles reflecting the ''spirit'' of portions of the UDHR – we offer 'freedom of speech' insofar as it includes the ability to have open ''civil'' discussion of ''reasonable duration'' on topics ''related to article writing'', for instance, and admins tend to come down brutally hard (as appropriate) on editors who discriminate against their fellows on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation – Wikipedia is not and should not be mistaken for a government or legal system, any more than the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Red_Cross Red Cross] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IBM IBM] should. Ultimately, our policies are driven by a desire to produce a better encyclopedia; that's the bottom line. Government is for the politicians. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:22, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

:::::::I implied above that parts of the declaration could or should be enforced on Wikipedia. Sorry. That was careless. I simply mean the declaration could be used as a standard against which to measure the way individuals fare in any community with governance and penalties. I'm not commenting on Virgilio's position, but on Jimbo's point that applying the UDHR to Wikipedia would be a waste of time. (My personal experience here has been very positive.) --[[wikipedia:en:User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[wikipedia:en:User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]]) 02:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

:::::::I implied above that parts of the declaration could or should be enforced on Wikipedia. Sorry. That was careless. I simply mean the declaration could be used as a standard against which to measure the way individuals fare in any community with governance and penalties. I'm not commenting on Virgilio's position, but on Jimbo's point that applying the UDHR to Wikipedia would be a waste of time. (My personal experience here has been very positive.) --Anthonyhcole (talk) 02:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

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