Re: [WikiEN-l] We need to recognize that advocating is a basic right - WikiEN-l

5 May 2006

I've heard about the Request for comment from the United States Congress.
It's true, Wikipedia is used as a PR/spin machine.
I've also noticed Commons is being used to upload PR pictures too, for spin purposes.

Craig

--- f.crdfa(a)gmail.com wrote:

From: "Tony Sidaway" &lt;f.crdfa(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: "English Wikipedia" &lt;wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org&gt;
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] We need to recognize that advocating is a basic right
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 12:51:07 +0100

On 5/4/06, Fred Bauder &lt;fredbaud(a)ctelco.net&gt; wrote:
...

 On May 4, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Tony Sidaway wrote:

  On 5/4/06, John Tex &lt;johntexster(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

  This is "advocacy".  Contacting people
to recruit them to support
 you or to
 act according to beliefs you think they may already have should
 rightly be
 called "campaigning". This is a Good Thing.

 You're on the wrong project, mate. 
 He's thinking about policy issues and expressing himself in the
 proper forum. He's being courteous. He may be wrong, but input on
 policy questions is welcome. 
All of the above may be true, but he's still on the wrong project. 
This is a project for the production of an encyclopedia, not for
political campaigning.
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