User talk:Seraphimblade/Draft petition to WMF

Relevant discussion[edit]

User:Ivanvector started a relevant discussion on objectives at Wikipedia talk:Community response to Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram#What do we want?. In case this is helpful. Thanks, GreyGreenWhy (talk) 14:55, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

announcement?[edit]

I thought that User:Pharaoh of the Wizards was just a user, and that the posting to the bureaucrats' noticeboard was not an "announcement". I have no idea how he/she found out about this. Wnt (talk) 15:10, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scope[edit]

Who are you trying to target with this? Are you thinking local or global? If the latter, it might be better placed on Meta (and then that leaves open the possibility of sending out neutrally-worded global MassMessages to m:GMD.) --Rs chen 7754 02:06, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I can think of a few globally-banned users who contributed to a large wiki whose ban would probably not fall under "child protection, threats of violence, threats of suicide, and legal matters" but where actually doing anything about it like starting a ban discussion would have likely subjected the user to a lot of harassment. --Rs chen 7754 02:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rschen7754, I'm thinking only as far as English Wikipedia. If other projects would like to ask the Foundation to take a wider role, that's their call, not ours. For that matter, we could ask them to, as we asked them to take over child protection, but that was by broad consensus. If we as a community decide to ask the WMF to take on other things, and they agree to, that's just fine—but just busting in without asking is what won't end well. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 18:44, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

request[edit]

Hi Seraphimblade, thank you for creating this - and hopefully it will have some kind of positive effect - but could you remove me from the timeline? I do not wish to be involved in this matter. Thanks, ansh.666 18:32, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ansh.666, no troubles, it was a pretty peripheral part of it anyway, so I don't see a need for it to be there. I am glad to see you still around, though. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 18:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]