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

[Ben Yates]

Shit, I messed up the quoting in that post.  Shebs was saying that
stuff himself, not quoting Gray.

On 8/1/07, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


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