[WikiEN-l] Fleshlight

[Phil Sandifer]

I have some serious problems with all of this.

The article was created in 2004, and its first version was obviously  
not advertising. It had three AfDs deciding to keep it.

I recognize that the company's demand of editorial control absolutely  
cannot be met. But I am gravely concerned that the Foundation  
Office's response to such a demand is to delete the page outright and  
salt the earth. Whether we keep an article or not should not be based  
on whether the article's subject has been a problem for us. The  
community has repeatedly indicated a desire to keep [[Fleshlight]],  
and the claim that the page was created for promotional purposes is  
demonstrably untrue. For the Office to unilaterally delete it marks  
an unfortunate and dangerous turning point in the relationship  
between the Office and the community.

Best,
Phil Sandifer
sandifer at english.ufl.edu

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a  
boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

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On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2006 at 22:18, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:30:59 -0500, "Richard Holton"
>> <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So, that leaves open the possibility of someone else creating the  
>>> page?
>>
>> Nope.  Fleshlight demand editorial control.  We can't give them that.
>> The only way we can prevent their "advertising value" from being
>> ruined is by not carrying it.
>
> Since when do we have any obligation to preserve somebody else's
> "advertising value"?
>
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