2008/4/29 Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>om>:
It is not a straw man. It is routine.
Not that common. Not like this. Requires a large group without many
wikipedians in to get pissed off at someone.
And it hurts real people.
I doubt it. Mr Kinnear is already dislike by the majority of those who
know about him I doubt the article had much of an impact one way or
another.
To you, it is one of 2 million articles. To the
victim, it is a top
google hit on his own name.
To a city it is an easy way to vent their frustration. If google
results are Mr Kinnear's biggest concern right now I think his union's
members will be added to the list of people who don't like him.
But in any event, I am not trying to prove anything.
I am proposing
that we have a long way to go before we can feel happy about the
situation with respect to real people being victimized by vandals.
People are using Wikipedia to carry out vendettas against people.
A vendetta would be a protracted campaign. In this case more a large
number of random individuals.
I
make no apologies for saying that we should think hard about how to stop
that from happening.
We have. So far the only results have been an experiment that fails to
meet even a low level of scientific rigour and and a bunch of power
tripping BLPers. As long as you continue to look for top down
solutions expect much the same result.
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geni