Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the
building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many volunteers who
work on these projects?
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Yair,
Would you please explain what you mean by damaging?
To have a huge banner placed over every article on
the whole project linking to 43px-font blatant political
advocacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.
My opinion remains that 43pt blatant advocacy in support of both
personal freedom of movement and scientific consensus disputed by
fossil fuel interests is extremely helpful to the Foundation, its
Mission, and in attracting additional volunteers, especially because
those issues have been disfavored by recent political trends brought
about by political leveraging of xenophobia and lobbyist money.
Why do people think it is reasonable to claim that such advocacy is
damaging without presenting any evidence in support of their opinion?
Clearly many people do, but why?
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