[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?
geni
geniice at gmail.com
Thu May 3 00:18:41 UTC 2007
On 5/3/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't honestly be serious, Doc. We don't write an article about
> "that company that starts with an M and made the popular operating
> system that starts with a W", we write about Microsoft and Windows.
> When we write about The Pirate Bay, we don't say "Well, there's this
> one website out there that distributes pirated software", we identify
> and name them, despite the highly-questionable legality of what
> they're doing. When we write about things, we identify and mention
> them. Now, of course, as always, we must require reliable sourcing. If
> no reliable sources publish the actual string, we can't verify it, so
> we can't publish it. But if they do, we mirror that, by identifying
> and naming it. Even -if- some people are acting badly in trying to
> force the issue, that's the way we do it with anything, and that's the
> way we should do it here.
Not true. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Crystal_Gail_Mangum
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geni
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