Quoting Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On 10/20/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/10/2007, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/20/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Go for it.
Grumble. I probably shouldn't, only make the situation more heated... besides, does anyone who isn't a wikipedian really care... grumble..... fine, it's in the Firehose!
I actually suspect that "Wikipedia is very tolerant, but doesn't put up with rubbish forever" will find favour with the general public.
As would "Wikipedia abandons open editing", probably.
This protection is a bad idea, but submitting this sort of story to slashdot or such is almost as bad an idea. We need to deal with this and stop it without the drama and trolling that occurs when these things get highly publicized.
In any event, the solution to the LaRouche article is to have more admins keep watch and block troublemakers. That works for other controversial articles and I see no reason why this one should be any different.