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

[Ray Saintonge]

And on the eighth day God invented the wheel, and the whole Goddamned 
thing started over again. - Wikigenesis 2:3A

:-) Ec

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>I thought this was absolutely priceless...
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>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
>