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

Marc Riddell michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 15 21:40:27 UTC 2007



> On 15/10/2007, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> 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.
> 
on 10/15/07 3:41 PM, Andrew Gray at shimgray at gmail.com wrote:

> Myself, I assumed he was committing a pretty clear joke.

Me too. I'm amazed it's been carried this far.

Marc




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