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[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 10/2/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You're right, we can't stop bad people from being bad, but that
> doesn't mean that we can't keep employ measures to encourage the
> honest people to stay honest.
>
> Or are you also opposed to doors that lock?  ... with the exception of
> high security doors, a locked door actually does fairly little to
> prevent a determined attacker from getting inside, and yet locked
> doors have been demonstrated over and over again to be effective.
>
> Or another way of looking at it:   One of the more clearly stated
> arguments against us running advertising on Wikipedia ourselves is the
> potential creation of bias, or at least the creation of the appearance
> of bias.   It strikes me as odd that people will scream so loudly
> against the introduction of advertising which would bring us lots of
> useful money without a definite introduction of bias, and yet folks
> are not willing to take maximal measures against the abuse of
> Wikipedia as an astroturfed advertising medium... when the latter does
> create a clear bias in our content.

Sorry if I *do* contradict you. You are one of the most reasonable
people on wikipedia, so I would hope that you would take my
contradiction of what you said above in the same spirit. I wish to
reason with the unreasonable statements in the paragraph above.

Advertisements are *not* useful money. They detract from our mission,
and the value that is added to our content by people who do not feel
advertisements are useful. I *will* argue the point if needed. But I
think I have argued that already in another place.




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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]