[WikiEN-l] Query for all harassment-related proposals: How are you different from BADSITES?
Ron Ritzman
ritzman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 13:45:18 UTC 2007
On 10/18/07, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> MakingLights is a famous blog, run by a famous person. People on
> that site's forum got into a flamewar of some sort with somebody.
> Some very-not-nice things were said, and apparently some personal
> information was posted. (Ostensibly the person's real name could be
> found just by typing his username into google, but I haven't confirmed
> that).
>
> Unfortunately for MakingLights, the person who was flamed turned out
> to be a Wikipedia administrator. He came to Wikipedia, declared
> Making Lights an "attack site", and in less than two hours, he went to
> 23 different pages and deleted all the links to Making Lights and its
> affiliated sites.
Hmmm, I was "Ron Ritzman" on Usenet. I'm "Ron Ritzman" here. and I'm
"Ron Ritzman" in real life. I, like 99.9% of people posting to
newsgroups, have been flamed. Can I now declare "Google Groups" an
"Attack Site" and delete all references to it anywhere I find them in
WP?
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