On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:31, ยท 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