Yes, but it is no litter of cats, but cat shit that came out of that bag. I'm sure MI5 is aware of us and might seek from time to time to influence article content. This is much more likely to happen by planting information in news media, than by use of the services of SlimVirgin. There is a persuasive odor of unreality here.

Fred

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 03:43 PM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

William Pietri wriote:

...Neither you nor Wikipedia has the power necessary to achieve your goal in this case... Research and long experience prove that trying to suppress information both makes it more appealing and more persuasive, so your efforts aren't just in vain, they are counterproductive...

Now Slashdot, a major tech news site, and Slate, a major general audience web publication owned by the Washington Post, have both mentioned this. It's time for all concerned to accept that the cat is not just out of the bag, but that the bag is in tatters and the cat has had a liter of healthy kittens that are now roving the alleys.

[...and quite a bit more.]

Can someone print William's response out on real paper and post it on whatever passes for a Wikipedia water cooler bulletin board, for all to see, for posterity? That was the clearest exposition of the whole sorry mess that I have seen, and I think it ought to lay the discussion utterly to rest. Let's keep trying to protect our editors from harm, but remove "at all costs" and "via futile censorship attempts" from our arsenal. It's time to move on.

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