"Matthew Brown" wrote
On 9/20/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm afraid that I don't see the
controversy in this whole thing. I do
know, however, that there is no one on Wikipedia who could explain it
in a couple of paragraphs, with a couple of links, so that an outsider
not deeply enmeshed in the sourrounding intrigue might understand.
I feel a lot of the controversy is about the principle of the thing,
among those not associated with any of the particular incidents.
Two principles:
- wiki believes external linking is a basic permission
- pedia believes we are here to do a specific job, and all uses of the site's space
are subordinate to doing that
We need to get recognition that external linking is only a basic permission _other things
being equal_; and that administrative restrictions of some kind on the site's space
are not unreasonable. enWP has 10 million pages. The AC can still tell people not to do
certain things in that space. As in the Tobias Conradi case, where user space was used in
a grudge-bearing fashion, and we said "oh no you don't".
Charles
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