[WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?

[jayjg]

On 7/29/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> > But is there anything to it? Or is it just nasty gossip?
> > If you want to gossip, join the Navy.
>
> There's a fine line to be trodden here.  Certainly, we don't
> want or need to dignify wild rumors with any attention at all.
> But once a story "has legs" (and whether it deserves them or not),
> too-strenuous attempts to deny it only fuel the speculations that
> there *is* a cabal and a cover-up -- and those speculations can
> end up driving more long-term damage than the original, spurious
> accusation would have.
>
> A single, simple statement on Slim's user or talk page, saying
> that the rumor is false, would be much better than all this
> rampant reverting by ElinorD, Jayjg, and Crum375.  (And there may
> have been other reverters, sorry if I left you out, but evidently
> this issue has become so "serious" that [[User talk:SlimVirgin]]
> has had a bunch of its history deleted.)

Steve, could you point out exactly what I have been "rampantly
reverting" in this regard?