[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[David Gerard]

2009/4/12 Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name>:

> You guys are right, and you're wrong.  Sanger seems to be factually
> correct in his assertion of co-foundership given that Jimbo himself
> put matters that way until inexplicably changing his mind later.
> However, when he insists on a "right" to state his point here, he
> starts sounding like various crackpots who insist on their "right" to
> rant everywhere they want to, even on private property.  On the other
> hand, it isn't very healthy for this project to take an attitude of
> "if you can't argue logically against that guy's point, just call him
> a troll and ban him!"  A wide degree of free speech in meta-
> discussion is in keeping with the aims of the project, which is the
> point I made (or dead horse I kept beating...) during the BADSITES
> wars.


Larry isn't on moderation. However, when he's going headlong into
green ink territory, I'm most certainly going to say so.


- d.