Uninteresting resignation

[C&B]

What George Lazenby was to Bond movies, SilkTork (T-C-L) is to Wikipedia governance... he has just resigned the crat bit, though. He has been thinking of this a while, apparently.

[utbc]

What George Lazenby was to Bond movies, SilkTork (T-C-L) is to Wikipedia governance... he has just resigned the crat bit, though. He has been thinking of this a while, apparently.

Someone was mean to him at BN; told him to either remain active and keep up with policies or shut the ef up.

[rnu]

What George Lazenby was to Bond movies, SilkTork (T-C-L) is to Wikipedia governance... he has just resigned the crat bit, though. He has been thinking of this a while, apparently.

Someone was mean to him at BN; told him to either remain active and keep up with policies or shut the ef up.

[C&B]

[tarantino]

Go in peace SilkTork, you old man.

SilkTork in 2008

Here's an intersection of SilkTork and Tamzin as reported by lurker Stephen Harrison.

Steve Pereira, username SilkTork, argued during the RfA that Tamzin was essentially advocating for “segregation” by political belief and that he doubted her ability to leave her politics at the door. Over an email exchange, Pereira told me that political bias was one of the greatest threats to Wikipedia. Publications like Fox News and OpIndia have a history of running headlines decrying what they view as Wikipedia’s leftist, socialist bias. In an email, Pereira argued that Wikipedia would not achieve its potential without a thriving culture of debate and dissent. “In Tamzin’s world, in which opposing views are stifled as unpleasant, Wikipedia would become a soft encyclopaedia of fandom,” Pereira said. “When we start to stifle debate, and negate opposing arguments, we end up with candyfloss, not hard brilliance.”

Tamzin’s supporters argued that she was obviously within her rights to consider her personal circumstances. Tamzin is a self-described “disabled queer trans leftist Jewish woman.” (As Tamzin put it, “The Nazis would have killed me five times over.”) Supporters said her views were justified because of the Trump administration’s record of anti-trans policy positions. “Some of these comments betray, to me at least, a distinct lack of empathy and understanding for what it means to be a minority and have your existence denied and/or threatened,” wrote the user nableezy. The user Leijurv cited Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance. The argument goes like this: One should not be required to tolerate intolerance because otherwise, intolerant people will quash the tolerant. Therefore, Tamzin can choose to be intolerant toward far-right actors who do not tolerate her.

[Ron Lybonly]

Go in peace SilkTork, you old man.

SilkTork in 2008

Here's an intersection of SilkTork and Tamzin as reported by lurker Stephen Harrison.

Steve Pereira, username SilkTork, argued during the RfA that Tamzin was essentially advocating for “segregation” by political belief and that he doubted her ability to leave her politics at the door. Over an email exchange, Pereira told me that political bias was one of the greatest threats to Wikipedia. Publications like Fox News and OpIndia have a history of running headlines decrying what they view as Wikipedia’s leftist, socialist bias. In an email, Pereira argued that Wikipedia would not achieve its potential without a thriving culture of debate and dissent. “In Tamzin’s world, in which opposing views are stifled as unpleasant, Wikipedia would become a soft encyclopaedia of fandom,” Pereira said. “When we start to stifle debate, and negate opposing arguments, we end up with candyfloss, not hard brilliance.”

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I agree with Silk Tork in this case. Wikipedia should stick to the facts. If an editor can do edit neutrally and civilly, should we care that they’re trans, Republican or Communist in their offline lives?

[Kraken]

SilkTork often felt like a lone voice of reason in a house inhabited by screaming children running with scissors. Credit to him for putting up with it for so long.

[Giraffe Stapler]

Go in peace SilkTork, you old man.

SilkTork in 2008

Coming soon to ITV, Silktork. After a disastrous gig with his Oasis tribute band, bassist Steve Perreira wakes up in a Guernsey hospital to find that he has somehow been transported back in time to 1976. Steve knows he has a second chance to find the life that he wanted. Armed with only a map scribbled on the back of a discarded matchbook, he must piece together the clues to prevent the murder of his fiancee and lead his pub rock band to headline the 1977 Glastonbury Festival.