[WikiEN-l] The Simpsons is an Attack Site... er... Show!

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Mon Oct 15 16:23:38 UTC 2007


Will Beback wrote:
> Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>> On tonight's Simpsons episode, an imprisoned criminal tells his 
>> visiting girlfriend to kill the guy who's been editing his biography 
>> in Wikipedia.  Gasp... harrassment of a Wikipedian!  Stop linking to 
>> that evil show right away!
> 
> Are you unaware of the difference between mentions of Wikipedia, 
> criticisms of Wikipeida and its editors , and harassment of editors?
> 
> Harassment is a different thing from criticism.

Strongly seconded.  Daniel is committing a pretty clear straw man fallacy.

--Jimbo




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