G'day Selina,
On 26/05/06, Mark Gallagher
<m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au>
wrote:
G'day Angela,
On 5/22/06, Mark Gallagher
<m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
It may
have escaped your notice, but the "9/11 Memorial Wiki"
is not a part of Wikipedia (IIRC it's on Wikicities, but ICBW).
That wiki is not, and never was, part of Wikia (formerly
Wikicities). It's a Wikimedia project with a Wikipedia URL, and
the vote on meta at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/9/11_wiki_move_proposal shows
there was never any support (including from me) of it being moved
to Wikicities.
Yeah, as Prasad pointed out, that was a case of shooting the ol'
mouth off without checking if the facts backed me up first (fear
not, I don't do this while writing *articles* ...). Whoops.
While the Wikimedia Foundation is, of course, free to host what it
likes, I don't think something like this belongs at
wiki*pedia*.org.
Liberalism gone crazy, there's nothing wrong with a memorial to
9/11...
"Liberalism" and the daemonisation thereof, gone crazy or otherwise, is
an American concept and I do not subscribe to it. You may wish to call
me a leftist no-goodnik, if you like; it's not true, but it gets the
same concept across.
Bear in mind this is an Australian advocating it's
deletion, not an
American.
I'm advocating the deletion of nothing. I agree that there's nothing
wrong with a Sep11 memorial, and I don't even have a problem with the
WMF hosting it. I just don't think it belongs under the Wikipedia
domain name; WP:NOT a memorial, after all.
Note that I'm not arguing this particularly strenuously, and not
starting any movements to have it moved (heh) to .wikimedia.org or
wikia/wikicities. That's the problem with us chardonnay socialists,
we're too busy sipping lattes in inner-city Melbourne to actually get
off our well-toned arses and do something ...
(If you got half the jokes in this post, you're probably Australian. If
you thought they were funny, the cheque is in the mail.)
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse