On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I don't spend a lot of time on on Wikipedia itself
these days,
Clearly not. Removing general discussion from talk pages is standard practice.
but when
did the project start censoring talk pages, or is
[[User:Faithlessthewonderboy]] just going ahead and making up his own
rules. This came up at [[Talk:Larissa Kelly]] about the /Jeopardy/
contestant. Her Wikipedia article was a topic of discussion during the
chat portion of a recent program in a way that could be taken as
criticism of deletionists. I disagree (but can understand) why some
people don't want this mentioned in Mainspace, but suppressing this
harmless discussion on the talk page beggars belief. This censor seems
to have the idea that anything which "does not pertain to improving the
article" should be removed from the article, and that merely being
trivial is hurtful.
Talk pages are not article space, and these pages have traditionally
served as a more relaxed place where there is wide latitude for
discussion, and where otherwise nasty conflicts can be defused. While
there are certain overtly nasty things can and should be removed from a
talk page, these situations are really the rare exception. Most issues
that can be considered trivial or off-topic in the widest sense of those
terms tend to be talked out quickly, and to be subsequently ignored
without harm. When we start suppressing valid criticism from the talk
pages, we've dug ourselves a deeper hole than I had previously imagined.
Ec
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