On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that Wikipedia being constantly bombarded by genuine spam has
put us in an overly defensive mindset, which is also fed by the
free-software anti-commercial attitude of some contributors. Spam is
when an article is created to garner publicity or hits. It's not
documenting anything anyone cares about, it's instead trying to give
false respectability to something our readers don't want to see.
Yes, in the same way that "vandal fighters" start to see vandalism
everywhere, especially in well-meaning but in some way malformed
contributions.
It's also the work of the false presumption that NPOV means we must
have *something* negative to say about every subject, or else the
article is unbalanced.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com