[WikiEN-l] COO story now in major media

[Nathan Awrich]

I created the original article, and while I agree that it was
problematic (in that the only reference to the claim of convictions
was, originally, the Register article) I think there are sufficient
other sources to allay BLP concerns - and now sufficient other
coverage to allay notability concerns. I also believe that the
attempts by some to deal with the perceived urgent issues were hasty,
in particular the desysop. I'll wait on the DRV to hear what others on
this list believe is the appropriate next step. As an aside, how does
Charles Ainsworth (Cla68, I believe) end up commenting in every news
article? Sheesh.

Nathan

On Dec 21, 2007 4:10 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> The AP has now latched onto the COO story, I caught this when checking out
> Fox News.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317887,00.html
>
> Now, I have previously argued that Doran wasn't notable on the talk page of
> the article (both article and talk page are currently deleted and, I
> presume, salted) and I will leave it to brighter minds than mine whether or
> not major media reports make a difference to her notability or the
> notability of the story. Nonetheless, people might want to put their
> thinking caps on because somebody is much more likely to take the deletion
> to DRV now. I'm posting this to the list as opposed to AN to reduce the
> signal to noise ratio, knowing that there are many people moderated here
> right now but that a range of opinions is still available and the list is
> publicly accessible.
>
> I feel kind of sad to be posting this, but given that the first round of
> deletions and other actions led to some hard feelings all around, it's
> probably better to develop an action plan before someone does something that
> leads to unnecessary drama.  I am AFK for the next 8 hours so won't be
> involving myself in any discussion.
>
> Risker
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