They're complaining about censorship of the *lava lamp* article? Who the hell would care enough to "censor" that? It's like censoring the Butter article. What nonsense. As for this disgruntled moron, he "acknowledges there will be cases where OTRS volunteers would be justified in keeping a complaint secret." Uh, did he just invalidate his own complaint there?
Plus, they're calling the lava lamp the "world's most famous novelty item"? Riiight. What's with the crap gossip-mongering at the end ("Are you having problems with Wikipedia community? Do let us know.") If these people are journalists, I don't want to be one anymore.
On 7/7/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Before complaining about this... why wouldn't you look to see what user blanked it? Don't fall for the register's irresponsible journalism without checking your work.
Eating my words: Their story is inflammatory, and it is overplaying a rare event... but it's not outright inaccurate.
The article was blanked by a experienced Wikipedian but a brand new and inexperienced OTRS user, shortly after being given access to OTRS.
He did not come to through the normal community channels, he stopped in to visit the office. For some reason which I can not fully comprehend he was given access to the legal queue, a subset of OTRS which is not available to the broad majority of OTRS users.
In it there was what appears to be a frivolous complaint about the use of the lavalamp trademark. Complaints like this at not infrequent, and they almost always come from the actual trademark holder, but they are almost always completely without merit. When there is merit to such complaints is is usually a matter which is not directly related... an unsourced negative comment in the article, or even outright vandalism. Issues like that are addressed by OTRS users acting in their capacity as regular editors, and the party with the trademark complaint is told to buzz off if they continue to push their meritless claims.
Some poking around indicates that the confusions have since been resolved...
I apologize for my initial quick response.
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