On 7/15/06, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/15/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Wikipedia should avoid gratuitous self-reference,
but the blocking of
Wikipedia by China is itself newsworthy/articleworthy, IMO. We have a
[[Wikipedia]] article, after all - not all self-reference is
forbidden.
I think that's a good assessment, and good criteria to use. The
blocks
have been covered in the major media, and the articles ties in with
other articles about PRC internet censorship, particularly [[Baidu
Baike]].
Well as someone living on the front lines of Wikipedia access in
China, I do think moving the article to Wikipedia: namespace is the
correct thing to do. It's not really appropriate for the main
namespace. It wouldn't be appropriate for any of these either:
[[Blocking_of_BBC_in_mainland_China]]
[[Blocking_of_Blogger_in_mainland_China]]
[[Blocking_of_HRIC_in_mainland_China]]
Is there anything like a [[Blocking of external media in mainland
China]] article? I think that would be quite reasonable to have an
article about. And when that article grows to an unwieldy size it would
also be justified to split it up into subtopics much like the ones you
list. So no, I think it's quite appropriate to have those articles, we
may just need a more obvious "parent" article about the subject in general.