[WikiEN-l] When Websites Attack

[David Gerard]

On 26/08/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2007 at 14:56:56 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> > It must be noted that Making Light isn't helping matters itself,
> > running an extended attack piece on SWATjester after he dared stop one
> > SF writer's attempt to use Wikipedia for self-publicity. The Nielsen
> > Haydens proceeded to encourage this. That they did so after the last
> > BADSITES kerfuffle beggars belief ...

> Other sites shouldn't be allowed to criticize Wikipedia or
> Wikipedians?  They should be expected to do everything by Wikipedia's
> rules and standards and not their own?


Only a *Nazi* would try to stop them publishing whatever they think
they can get away with. Deliberately setting out to piss people off is
unlikely to make people want to work with or near them in any way
whatsoever, however.

(And User:Pnh has been around Wikipedia long enough to damn well know better.)


- d.