On 02/05/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Again, this isn't a copyvio situation (and our copyright paranoia is a whole different can of worms), but a situation of contradictory and unclear legality that shouldn't be handled the way it has been thus far.
As I said, the consistent "go away you idiots" response to people spamming the number is IMO just the thing we need to make the point this is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper.
This is a first for us; procedure can only be advisory in a so far unique case.
I did go to the Slashdot story and tell the people complaining of Wikipedia censorship to try our sister site that *is* a newspaper:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Digg.com_suffers_user_revolt%3B_Founder_will_not...
- d.