Joe Szilagyi wrote:
Crux of the question, yes. Why do any rules or
policies from 3rd party
websites or services receive enforcement on Wikipedia? James F or Kelly or
whomever made the rule for the channels, but their authority on Freenode has
no applicability on Wikipedia.
Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com
I must say, that is an interesting point. #wikipedia, as is commonly
claimed, is in no way sanctioned or endorsed by Wikipedia. And yet the
rules from #wikipedia will still be enforced on-wiki.
The best argument I've seen has been the copyright argument. Users on
IRC are not explicitly releasing their text under the GFDL or another
free use license, hence, Wikipedia can reject the text as copyvio. In my
opinion, this is still a pretty cheap argument, with rather transparent
reasoning behind it, but it's still valid, even if barely so.