[WikiEN-l] Sep 11 memorial, systemic bias, lunacy in Wikipedians, and other fine topics (was Re: jaygy and indefinate ban)

Selina . wikipediareview at gmail.com
Thu May 25 23:45:29 UTC 2006


On 26/05/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> G'day Angela,
>
> > On 5/22/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It may have escaped your notice, but the "9/11 Memorial Wiki" is not a
> >> part of Wikipedia (IIRC it's on Wikicities, but ICBW).
> >
> > That wiki is not, and never was, part of Wikia (formerly Wikicities).
> > It's a Wikimedia project with a Wikipedia URL, and the vote on meta at
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/9/11_wiki_move_proposal shows there was
> > never any support (including from me) of it being moved to Wikicities.
>
> Yeah, as Prasad pointed out, that was a case of shooting the ol' mouth
> off without checking if the facts backed me up first (fear not, I don't
> do this while writing *articles* ...).  Whoops.
>
> While the Wikimedia Foundation is, of course, free to host what it
> likes, I don't think something like this belongs at wiki*pedia*.org.
>
>
>

Liberalism gone crazy, there's nothing wrong with a memorial to 9/11...

Bear in mind this is an Australian advocating it's deletion, not an
American.

-Selina



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