[WikiEN-l] How to stop Encyclopedia Dramatica from making attack articles on us

[Keitei]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:31, · Firefoxman wrote:

> What is it? I looked it up on WP but it was deleted. The site is
> blocked<http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/filter.html?URL=http:// 
> encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/ 
> Main_Page&IP=158.59.199.125&CAT=GPORN&USER=DEFAULT>at
> my school, so I cannot check the site.

Trying to be as NPOV as possible, Encyclopedia Dramatica is meant to  
be a humor site. It originated from LJ drama (which was a bit of a  
fiasco for those involved, if I remember correctly), and thus has  
always allowed and encouraged articles on livejournal users and  
internet personas. Wikipedians are fair game. Their humor style tends  
towards the "tasteless": shock images, profanity, and obscene mental  
images. Some people find this funny; I don't happen to, but it's  
their business. They do have "real" content, that is content on real  
world things, but most of their articles last I checked were internet  
related.

As for knocking them off their host, I don't think Wikipedia ever  
would be or should be involved in this. If different people want to  
initiate this, that's their business. Doesn't seem to be appropriate  
for a Wikipedia mailing list, but that's just my opinion.

--keitei