Anyone care to form or join a Public Relations committee? First order of business would be to send an apology to The Register and assure them that the "wankers" who flamed them were not speaking officially for our project. We might also ask for suggestions on improving our article about their newspaper...
Ed Poor Fiddler and Bureaucrat
Yes, please. Coordinating responses to press about us is an excellent idea. I shuddered a bit myself when I saw those responses, and when I saw someone on IRC (Raul?) write that they had sent a followup to the second Register piece. I'm not sure we have anything to apologize for -- it isn't anyone's responsibility to control what kinds of letters Wikipedians write -- but we should send them a properly respectful and thankful reply.
After all, by publishing their initial article they fixed a glaring POV and stylistic flaw in an article about my favorite 20th century patent artist.
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