[WikiEN-l] The problem with flagging things with {{office}}

geni geniice at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 16:02:03 UTC 2006


On 4/20/06, James D. Forrester <james at jdforrester.org> wrote:
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> Using the {{office}} template to tag problem content is a nice idea,
> but, I would imagine, has a rather serious drawback: Wikitruth.info
> (amongst other 'helpful' critics) seems to have a sysop working for
> them. Were we to flag an article that was libellous with {{office}}, you
> can bet that they would go and dig out the deleted sections, and repost
> it to their wonderful service.

Doubtful. Have a look at how mauch of the article has been deleted. In
any case they could get it from answers.com.


You can't hide WP:OFFICE actions because then people could just watch
danny's protection and deletion log.
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geni



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