In an off-wiki (but public) discussion forum, a group of detractors
of a living person publicly discuss colluding to disrupt Wikipedia in
these terms:
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"It seems to me, Jim, that the way for us to deal with Wiki should be
'all or nothing'. "
"XXXX [WP editor 1] is concerned that Wiki should be an honest, well-
sourced information resource. The world at large already knows Wiki
will never be that - especially experts in any given field who
already have publishing outlets and have no need nor desire to have
their thoughts tinkered and tampered with by an amateur, self-
appointed editorship. "
"Google-searching your chosen area of interest gets you further and
faster. Wiki is crap, and the bigger it gets, the more irrelevant it
becomes - more blogosphere than reputable encyclopedia. "
"But, pragmatically, it would make sense if every forum member joined
in the editing there, if only to make YYYY [WP editor 2] work for a
living and discredit ZZZZ (Living person) in the process. Just join
in, a phrase here and there, change or remove things that are false,
add things that are missing, generally raise hell? "
"Alternatively, we could all stay clear and have nothing to do with
this blatent [sic] pro-XXX vanity piece. What we shouldn't do any
more is attempt lengthy XXX-style discussions aimed at achieving
'consensus' among Wiki eds. (Though full marks to XXX - and XXX and
others, too - for trying)."
"I say just either dive in and edit the fu*cker silly, however you
see fit, hit-and-run style, or leave well alone. But do it for fun,
if you do it at all. Wiki is not as important as its editors would
have us believe."
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The usernames of these people are known. Is there anything to do to
preempt that possible disruption?
-- Jossi