On 02/07/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/2/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> If you're referring to the linking of real
names to account names
> without authorisation by the person in question, this mailing list has
> been guilty of that at times. This would then make
wikimedia.org
> unlinkable.
> The Mongo ruling is a blunt instrument. It's not surprising it's
> hurting the encyclopedia.
All our policies and practices are blunt instruments
in the wrong
hands. They need to be applied with common sense.
This policy is not being applied with common sense. It's being applied
stupidly and damagingly.
- d.