Re: [WikiEN-l] Tracking ranges of anons

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Gerard wrote: Most definitely. The concern with Diebold is that they were editing in a manner that showed an obvious conflict of interest. While a block isn't really going to do anything to stop this in the future--the IP has been inactive for months, and after all of this, Diebold will probably block all its employees from Wikipedia--yet it gives the impression that we're doing something about it :) As you said, they'll be watching like hawks--and it's our credibility, moreso than Diebold's reputation, that is on the line (at least from where I'm sitting). A block shows that we are watching out for our 'pedia and that we don't condone such actions taken by corporations. (You've gotta keep in mind that a lot of people in the press haven't wrapped their head around this whole anybody-can-edit mentality, and assume that if Diebold is editing articles about itself, it's because we explicitly allowed them to do so.) - -- Daniel Cannon (AmiDaniel) http://amidaniel.com cannon.danielc(a)gmail.com