[WikiEN-l] Point of origin (was Re: HD DVD key and the spam blacklist)

[Michael Snow]

Matthew Brown wrote:

> On 5/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>> > So, if I start spamming "George Bush" all over the wiki that string
>> > will get blocked by the regex filter too?
>>
>> You know, sometimes I think [[WP:POINT]] *should* have been written 
>> about you.
>
> It wasn't?

I thought so too at the time, but the author of the original admonition 
claimed it was not. Or at least, Anthony may have been no more than one 
example of the phenomenon being addressed. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Don%27t_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point/Pollicy&oldid=2875238 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Don%27t_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point/Pollicy&oldid=2875238>

--Michael Snow