[WikiEN-l] Meet the Metz

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Ok, Register article now Slashdotted:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/07/1434221

Could someone please go over there and explain at minimum how Bagley is a
complete ass and please list a few of the things he did that got him banned?

Quoting Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>:

> Ben Yates wrote:
>> Articles like this are getting lots of traffic from digg and other
>> places, and significantly damaging wikipedia's reputation.  The way to
>> combat that is not to refuse to be interviewed; it's to get the other
>> side of the story out more effectively.  I'm not sure of the best way
>> to do that, but I don't think the occasional bunker mentality here
>> helps.
>
> We've got a neutral news outlet that we could go to; Wikinews. Perhaps
> someone who's actually familiar with the case could write a "view from
> the other side" and post it there, that way when discussions arise on
> blogs and Slashdot and whatever there'll be someplace that they can be
> directed to.
>
> It shouldn't be a whitewash, mind you; Wikinews shouldn't be a
> propaganda arm for anyone. But in cases like this IMO a straightforward
> recounting of the facts one feels that the Register omitted would go a
> long way toward defusing a lot of the bad publicity. I've found that
> people are usually quite willing to accept the notion that a news story
> was skewed by poor reporting if there's some evidence to back that up.
>
>