[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is ... free web hosting?

Nick heligolandwp at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 28 22:49:43 UTC 2008


It's not been through a full 5 day deletion debate, but yes, it has been to
MfD and was "Speedily Kept".

On 28/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Except that this one is a small group of admins (mostly) in userspace
> and there hasn't been any enraged reports of hacking. Are there
> policies related to linking *into* Wikipedia? I'd be surprised. I
> think (but I'm not 100% sure) that this has already survived an MfD.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 5:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some time ago I ran into a case where a small airline managed to
> > purchase a domain name with redirection service, pointed it to the
> > Wikipedia article about them, and then later angrily contacted the
> > foundation enraged that we were 'hacking' their website simply because
> > users were editing the article normally.
> >
> > I didn't think that I'd run into another one as weird as that, but I
> > think this comes close:
> >
> > http://bathrobecabal.org/
> >
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