[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

For once, glad you replied (I accidentally deleted).

You forget Wikipedia, on the warpath against ignorance...

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Riddell [mailto:michaeldavid86 at comcast.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 09:28 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
>
>
>> On Sep 19, 2007, at 5:09 AM, wikien-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>> 
>>> In the case of MichaelMoore.com I think it was righteous to remove
>>> our link to them WHILE they had on their main page a link to edit a
>>> Wikipedia user's page. However, the most productive response was to
>>> contact them and educate them regarding the inappropriateness of
>>> the link. Designating the site permanently as an attack site was
>>> inappropriate (although they certainly function in that way with
>>> respect to our conservative brethren).
>
>on 9/19/07 8:56 AM, Sheldon Rampton at sheldon at prwatch.org wrote:
>> 
>> LOL. I didn't realize that the idea of "attack sites" could be
>> extended to refer to anyone who attacks ANYONE. I hereby propose a
>> ban on all mentions of:
>> 
>> * Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (because they attacked Richard Nixon)
>> 
>> * George W. Bush (because he attacked Iraq)
>> 
>> * The NAACP (because it attacks racism)
>> 
>> * Heart attacks (because they attack hearts)
>> 
>> * Thumbtacks (because they attack thumbs, or at least sound like they
>> do)
>> 
>:-)
>
>And, please, one more: Snacks (because they attack me).
>
>Marc
>
>
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