[WikiEN-l] Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

Nick heligolandwp at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 27 22:38:30 UTC 2007


It's perfect nonsense for Wikipedia Review to come up with, really, accusing
someone of being a secret agent is one of those heffalump traps. If you say
you're not a secret agent, it's obvious you are, if you say you are a secret
agent, you're bluffing. We've stumbled into the twilight zone of conspiracy
theorists now. I'd pour yourselves a large drink, put your feet up and
chuckle away at the sheer stupidity and naivety of anybody who believes
these.

On 27/07/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One thing I never see covered by Brandt and co. is even if this is true,
> does it matter? Seriously. We have people who have all sorts of jobs
> working
> on the wiki, most of whom know how to leave bias's at the door. Slim's one
> of my favorite admin, a little short at times, but incredibly dedicated
> and
> wholly appropriate. Even where I disagree with her (WP:ATT for one) it
> stems
> from a difference of opinion, not me thinking she's evil. Theres not any
> real evidence for any of these claims, true, but even if they were, who
> the
> hell cares? The WR crowd always assumes this is some major bombshell.
>
> On 7/27/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/27/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/27/1943254 is currently
> on
> > > the front page, along with the text "It turns out that a Wikipedia
> > > administrator named SlimVirgin is actually Linda Mack..." Looks like
> > > outing to me.
> > >
> > It's only outing if it's true, and apparently it isn't.
> >
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