[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art dispute pits artists against Wikimedia Foundation

[FT2]

We actuallyin practice have quite a high bar on such things. Can you find a
stable BLP article (ie one that has survived or would survive AFD) on a
"notable vandal of a major website"? Zero to very few. A number of "famous
for just being famous" AFD's are deleted, too.

FT2

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> > > Misuse doesnt get celebrated, no matter the nobility of its motive in
> > > the performance art world, by simply creating drama in its wake. Too
> > > abusable if so.  (Article creation on a vandal if they manage to
> > > vandalize wp enough to get media comment, anyone?)
>
> That sounds very much like applying special standards to protect us that
> nobody else gets.  An incident involving someone causing trouble somewhere
> else will get an article in Wikipedia.  We don't listen to complaints that
> the incident should go unreported because reporting it encourages people to
> cause trouble in other sites.  Why, then, should we do this when it might
> encourage people to cause trouble in Wikipedia?
>
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