[WikiEN-l] COO story now in major media

[Rjd0060 -]

Yes, a soft redirect to the WMF article may be best, as long as there is
mention of this in there.

On Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Rjd0060 - wrote:
> > There needs to be some mention, somewhere.  SALTing the page isn't a
> > positive message either.  People are going to hear the story from
> another
> > news source, and then will come to Wikipedia to read more, and when they
> > search for Carolyn Doran, and get "*This page has been protected to
> prevent
> > creation"*, they will have their own thoughts of Wikipedia and the WMF,
> > which aren't going to be positive.
>
> Indeed. If we can't have an article about the woman herself, insert a
> paragraph into the foundation article and then redirect [[Carolyn
> Doran]] to the section that it's in.
>
> The point of the encyclopedia is to provide people with the information
> that they want. If they're here looking for information on "Carolyn
> Doran", we should send them to the place where we have the most
> information about her.
>
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