-----Original Message-----
From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 2, 2007 04:45 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattackkkkk site link policy
On 02/07/07, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Information you have approved for publication in
the New York Times is
not "private information".
Define "private information".
If you're referring to the linking of real names to account names
without authorisation by the person in question, this mailing list has
been guilty of that at times. This would then make
wikimedia.org
unlinkable.
The Mongo ruling is a blunt instrument. It's not surprising it's
hurting the encyclopedia.
It's a righteous decision applied to ED. Attempting to generalize it into a policy,
whether by friend or foe, is troublesome.
Fred