[WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?

[Fred Bauder]

Generally speaking we don't include stuff that is made up; unless it crosses the notability threshold. This might, but does not seem to yet.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Oleg Alexandrov [mailto:mathbot at hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org]
>Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 06:59 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?
>
>As we know, Slashdot posted a story linking to a paranoic article
>revealing SlimVirgin's real name and claiming she is a secret
>agent. Bad and dumb on their part. That of course makes
>SlimVirgin feel distressed, creates a lot of damage, etc.
>
>However, how far should Wikipedians go to "protect" the feelings
>of their editors? As of now, any attempts (and they were many) to
>mention anything about this anywhere on Wikipedia is reverted on
>sight. Any post with the words "SlimVirgin news" is just deleted.
>
>I beleive this is going overboard. The damage is done. Shutting
>our eyes and ears, pretending "All is well in Wiki-land", and
>ruthless self-censoring is just further damaging Wikipedia's
>reputation.
>
>Comments?
>
>Oleg Alexandrov
>
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