[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Feb 24 02:02:17 UTC 2006


Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
 > A compromise was proposed that I - and a few others - could have
lived with
> - a protected redirect to a short paragraph on [[Internet phenomenon]] or
> [[List of YTMND fads]], which simply states he was some guy who got
> convicted of a minor sex crime and had his picture turned into an Internet
> meme.
> 
> No, that was not good enough for the article's proponents - we had to have
> his complete life story (such as it is) and picture for all to see. The
> proposal was rejected.
> 
> So, now we have nothing for a year.

Well, it still may be appropriate to do whatever would have been done,
had the AfD been respected in the first place.


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