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