[WikiEN-l] Featured editors?

[David Gerard]

On 13/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:17:17 -0500, "Alec Conroy"
> <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> >Some people-- far too many, have come to view the encyclopedia as a
> >way to minimize the influence of the banned, rather than view banning
> >as a tool to protect the encyclopedia.  In the infamous Attack Sites
> >case, two of our own arbitors voted that "Not mentioning the Banned
> >Attackers" was more important than "Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia", and
> >that mentions or links should be stricken from the encyclopedia, even
> >at the cost to the project itself.

> Who would those people be?  Names, please.  I've not come across
> anyone who thinks that not mentioning banned people is more
> important than the encyclopaedia.  Of course, if you represent
> linking to a hate site as being crucial to the integrity of the
> project then it might *seem* as if that's the case, but most of us
> are, I hope, a good deal more pragmatic than that.


The case in question was mentioning antisocialmedia.net at all (not a
link, but naming it) in [[Judd Bagley]]. It went to arbitration, as
you may recall.


- d.