I thought this was absolutely priceless... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects &lt;helpdesk-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; To: helpdesk-l(a)wikimedia.org Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia, I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject. Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article. Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 <http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793> Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible. - A Wikipedia user -- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

I thought this was absolutely priceless... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects &lt;helpdesk-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; To: helpdesk-l(a)wikimedia.org Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia, I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject. Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article. Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 <http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793> Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible. - A Wikipedia user