[WikiEN-l] Recent 1-Click Answers Deal

[Jtkiefer]

crossposted to Foundation-L list


To the board,


I just wanted to let you know how stunned and disappointed I was to hear 
that the board with very little input made this deal to advertise on 
wikipedia. I feel that this is a sellout and a betrayal of the trust 
that us the users place in the board and I urge you all to terminate 
this deal as soon as possible.  I understand that it would be nice to 
have an extra income source for misc.projects however that too is 
unecessary since there is most likely a better way.  I'd also like to 
point out that the community has expressed overall disapproval for the 
idea and is as well disappointed in the board for this at Wikipedia 
TAlk:Tools/1-Click_Answers 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Tools/1-Click_Answers#I.27m_sorry.2C_but_I_don.27t_see_the_point>. 
I urge you all to reconsider this before you alienate and isolate many 
of the good editors and contributors that Wikipedia has.

Respectfully,

User:Jtkiefer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jtkiefer>