"Delirium" <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote in
message news:43FBD5CA.6000904@hackish.org...
Joshua Griisser wrote:
I'm almost speechless with rage at Jimbo's
unilateral deletion of the
encyclopedia article [[Brian Peppers]] - not to mention his locking (via
[[User:Danny]] and [[WP:OFFICE]]) of [[Harry Reid]] for *five days*.
I'm very
confused by this one. I wrote a one-sentence, factual,
verifiable, referenced stub reading something like the following (from
memory):
[snip]
I fail to see how this could possibly be legally
problematic. What's
more, deleting it from the encyclopedia reduces our coverage of internet
culture, which is currently an active area of academic research.
At this stage, I think the legal angle pales into insignificance next to the
FireStorm this article has generated on Wikipedia.
My impression is that this is a particularly egregious example of the
poisonous atmosphere in the Deletion-related arenas abut which Jimbo has
previously commented.
There are some books on internet fads currently in
press, scheduled to
appear within the next year. If one of them mentions Brian Peppers,
will we still prohibit an article in Wikipedia about it?
Well, there is a deadline. Whether a proper article or a troll-piece hits
the presses first will be interesting...
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]