-----Original Message----- From: Oleg Alexandrov [mailto:mathbot@hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 09:04 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:15:26PM +0000, Fred Bauder wrote:
Generally speaking we don't include stuff that is made up; unless it crosses the notability threshold. This might, but does not seem to yet.
I am not talking about including this in articles. I am talking about people removing any mention of this from talk pages, not just the link to the attack site, nothing, nothing at all containing the words "SlimVirgin" and "news" is allowed to stand.
I understand that such discussion may be off-topic on Wikipedia, but how far should people go to purge any mention on this from the site? This is not about notability anymore, not about protecting the feelings of an editor, it is about some Wikipedians using the policy of attack sites to censor and delete any discussions on the topic.
But is there anything to it? Or is it just nasty gossip? If you want to gossip, join the Navy.
Fred