[WikiEN-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Most read US newpaper blasts Wikipedia

[slimvirgin at gmail.com]

On 11/30/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> This case Slim Virgin mentions is in arbitration now and a blatant
> example of gaming Google by associating the name of the person with a
> lot of accusations he has only a marginal connection with ...
> At a minimum we need to not allow Google to index our talk pages. We
> talk about a lot of things. They may be about information but they
> are not encyclopedic.

Fred, the case I was referring to isn't the one that's in arbitration,
though I know the one you mean, and it's quite similar. I'm starting
to wonder whether this is happening a lot: that troublemakers see our
talk pages as a sort of Trojan horse. They pretend to be having an
innocent conversation designed to sort out the good from the bad
material, whereas in fact the discussion is only a vehicle being used
to spread the bad stuff, which they know won't survive in our
articles.

Sarah