[WikiEN-l] COO story now in major media

[Ben Yates]

If we don't have an article on Doran, it'll look like we're censoring
it for PR reasons.  That's the last thing we need right now.
Wikipedia looks *best* when it extensively covers subjects that make
it look bad.

On Dec 21, 2007 8:53 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/12/2007, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When the press talks about us, they do so because the things here are
> > not important. When they talk about people who work here, they're
> > doing so because nobody cares to know about them.  NPOV, N, and RS for
> > V don't apply to us, because nothing about us can be verified, nothing
> > written about us by the press can be reliable, we know we're never
> > going to be notable, and NPOV means we need to protect ourselves
> > against visibility.
>
>
> The above was clearly written without reference to the actual observed
> behaviour, i.e. every media fart and puff involving Wikipedia getting
> noted in Wikipedia.
>
>
> - d.
>
>
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