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

[Ben Yates]

On 8/1/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Andrew Gray wrote:
> But asking valuable editors to quit in response to
> outsiders going after them is completely the wrong way to go about it -
> you may not like the word "appeasement", but what else would you call
> it? You're giving the attackers what they want, at the expense of the
> victims. Now that you're featured on WR, you're going to be under
> scrutiny yourself - are you willing to quit and abandon all your WP work
> when they start attacking you? And no, coming back under another name
> won't help, they are always ready to make sockpuppet accusations.
>
> You really should go take a look at WR, and see the malevolence for
> yourself.

Wikipedia Review is not monolithic, of course, any more than Wikipedia
is -- you're making the same mistakes that people made about Wikipedia
for years.  Some people on WR are completely insane; others are just
deeply misguided and paranoid; a few are rather sensible.  There is no
cabal.

Anyway, I very much doubt WR would be able to identify a random new
editor who happens to be the former slimvirgin.  I don't know much
about S.V., but if she can't get anything at all done as an ordinary
editor, then perhaps we need to give ordinary editors more powers.

-- 
Ben Yates
Wikipedia blog - http://wikip.blogspot.com