I've heard about the Request for comment from the United States Congress. It's true, Wikipedia is used as a PR/spin machine. I've also noticed Commons is being used to upload PR pictures too, for spin purposes.
Craig
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From: "Tony Sidaway" f.crdfa@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] We need to recognize that advocating is a basic right Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 12:51:07 +0100
On 5/4/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
On May 4, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 5/4/06, John Tex johntexster@gmail.com wrote:
This is "advocacy". Contacting people to recruit them to support you or to act according to beliefs you think they may already have should rightly be called "campaigning". This is a Good Thing.
You're on the wrong project, mate.
He's thinking about policy issues and expressing himself in the proper forum. He's being courteous. He may be wrong, but input on policy questions is welcome.
All of the above may be true, but he's still on the wrong project. This is a project for the production of an encyclopedia, not for political campaigning. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l