User:Daniel Brandt/open letter

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THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER

October 16, 2005

Mr. Jimmy Wales

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

200 2nd Avenue South, #358

St. Petersburg FL 33701-4313

Email: jwales@wikia.com

Dear Mr. Wales:

I sent you an email a couple of hours ago requesting deletion of the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt and am following that email with this fax. I ask that this page be permanently deleted. It was started as a stub by SlimVirgin on September 28, apparently acting as an authorized agent of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. This anonymous person started the stub without my knowledge, and cited sources for information on me without vetting these sources.

She and I went back and forth on this piece for several days, and she reverted me more than once. In the end, I remained unsatisfied with my ability to influence this article about me, particularly with respect to the sources cited. At this point I renewed my original request to have the entire thing deleted.

Since I sent my email to you, she put it into delete status. She says that she was able to do this because she and I were the only two who contributed to the piece, and we both agreed to the deletion. She also says that any other admins can undo this speedy deletion if they add an edit.

I am asking you to insure that no other admins can undo the deletion. I presume that you and the directors of Wikimedia Foundation are legally responsible for the actions of your anonymous administrators.

I consider this entire episode a privacy violation. My only interest in trying to shape the article was to determine how much power I had to address this situation short of a deletion. I am now satisfied that I lack sufficient power, and ask that it remain deleted permanently.

Sincerely,

Daniel Brandt

President