I think it was certainly a very dick move to impose it on the community - when the first proposal raised clear objections.
I know we pointed them at RCOM/Foundation at that point, but I don't think that was with the implicit agreement that whatever they came up with would be acceptable...
Tom
On 9 December 2011 09:41, Fae
<faenwp@gmail.com> wrote:
I have raised my concerns for this appearing to be an advert on IRC
with RCOM the DEV team and then on-wiki with Philippe. RCOM have
pointed me to the WMF and the WMF said it's not their problem and
pointed me back to RCOM. There is a claim that the central notice was
agreed with the community but this does not appear to yet be supported
with evidence.
I have raised my personal opinion at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Harvard.2FScience_Po_Adverts>
where any of my fellow Wikipedians are free to add their own.
Note, during the IRC chat it was pointed out to me that Google or a
telecoms company could easily be next, there is no restriction for
central notices of this type on what logos or other forms of
advertising they might carry under a claim that this would make the
sponsorship arrangement clear. Considering Jimbo's statements that
Wikipedia will never carry advertising, I think this puts us all in an
uncomfortable position.
Thanks,
Fae
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