[WikiEN-l] [Fwd: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse]

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

I thought this was absolutely priceless...

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Subject: 	[HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse
Date: 	Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000
From: 	<NAME REMOVED>
Reply-To: 	Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects
<helpdesk-l at Wikimedia.org>
To: 	helpdesk-l at wikimedia.org

Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia,

I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be
abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a
positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it
gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical,
biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the
reality of the subject.

Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an
article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly
closed-minded and totally against the subject:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA

You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would
be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow
all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of
staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the
certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If
the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article.

Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article
edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the
article's history:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793
<http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793>

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and
thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible.
 - A Wikipedia user

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