On 30/03/2008, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
"ERZURUM - The Turkish Association for Fight Against Unfounded Genocide Allegations (ASIMED) launched an e-mail campaign against Wikipedia urging it to remove the "Semi-Protection" lock over the article on Armenian allegations concerning the incidents of 1915."
I realize that, having been partially suckered by their ploy, I'm not the best person to be expressing outrage here, but: what can they possibly be thinking? Do they even understand what "semi-protection" actually means? Surely they realize that a contentious issue like this one is much better served by limiting the editing activity to registered users, rather than letting in any random anonymous-IP drive-by editor...
Suckered? If you went to the article to see if you had something useful to add to the discussion of article consensus, that's a win for us I think. We can honestly say "it has drawn editorial attention to the article in question, which helps do a better job of the process of collectively writing a neutral encyclopedia."
- d.