On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
What Ken is describing sounds more like a reiteration of Wikipedia's existing "no original research policy" than something specifically addressing stalking or cyberstalking. I think stalking happens frequently enough that it deserves to be treated seriously in its own right rather than subsumed under some other concept. In the case of Allison Stokke, the young woman whose experience was the spark of this thread, Wikipedia's article about her didn't *create* any news. Her situation has been reported in the Washington Post and elsewhere. Ken's policy therefore would not be particularly helpful in this case.
Again, I said the rule needed to be reworded. Wikipedia didn't create news in the sense of causing her to be stalked. But (for the sake of argument) Wikipedia's attempt to report on stalking her achieves the goals of the stalkers. Likewishe, Wikipedia's attempt to report on GNAA helps achieve the goals of GNAA. If writing a Wikipedia article implies participating in the story to this degree, then we shouldn't have an article.