[WikiEN-l] London calling, etc.

[Steven Walling]

Okay, maybe I just need more coffee, but can someone explain to me why in
god's name an indef block is the desired response to a suicide note on-wiki?


On 10/2/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No, the next best thing would probably have been to ring the police
> direct
> > and point them to the information in the wikipedia, rather than spamming
> it
> > across a list in the *hope* that somebody was in a position to action
> it.
>
> Phoning a non-local police force (esp. a foreign one) isn't that easy.
> I've just spent 5 minutes looking, and couldn't find any way of
> contacting the london police in an emergency other than "dial 999". I
> guess one could contact their local police and get them to contact the
> relevant force, but I'm not sure how well that would work.
>
> > If nothing else, email is subject to various kinds of failures and
> delays,
> > and this isn't something you would want to risk it on.
>
> No means of communication is perfect. What is the alternative?
>
> > As a matter of experience and principle, historically it always seems to
> be
> > a bad idea to encourage things that are off-topic to be included on a
> list,
> > no matter how well meaning it might seen. I have never seen it end well,
> and
> > this one didn't either; no matter how glad we are that everyone is OK,
> we
> > still got punked.
>
> How is someone posting a suicide note to the English Wikipedia
> off-topic for a mailing list for discussion about the English
> Wikipedia?
>
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