[WikiEN-l] User:Virgin United creates article for Virgin Unite

[Ryan Wetherell]

On 12/29/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> Wikipedia Review never misses an opportunity to bash Wikipedia for
> any reason, or no reason, for anything anybody connected with it does
> or fails to do.  Consistency is not a virtue for them; they can
> simultaneously attack Wikipedians for deleting stuff, for failing to
> delete stuff, for taking action in a dictatorial manner without
> allowing debate, for engaging in too much time-wasting debate instead
> of useful action, for being too fascistic, for being too anarchistic,
> for being too highbrow, too lowbrow, too middlebrow, too left-wing,
> too right-wing, too pro-American, too anti-American, too academic,
> too anti-academic, too pop-cultural, too anti-pop-cultural; for
> airing too much dirty laundry in public, for trying to shove its
> flaws under the carpet; because it's an unstoppable juggernaut,
> because it's an unstable mess that's about to collapse; it's
> capitalist, it's communist; Jimbo screws it up by exercising his
> personal whims, Jimbo is a do-nothing figurehead who refuses to act
> at all; critics get harrassed, critics get ignored; people get banned
> unfairly, people don't get banned who deserve it; its mailing lists
> and IRC rooms have nothing but idle, pointless, off-topic chitchat;
> its mailing lists and IRC rooms are where all the important policy
> decisions get made to the exclusion of people who participate on the
> actual Wikipedia discussion pages.

This should be on a plaque somewhere.

--Ryan

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