[WikiEN-l] School threats on Wikipedia for more than a year, classes canceled, teen held -LA Times (UPI)

[Chris Howie]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wikipedia29apr29,0,3359667.story

"Again, the district asked Wikipedia staff to remove the message, and
they complied, even placing a block on the page that bars postings
from unidentified e-mail addresses."

It's amazing to me how many journalists don't understand something as
simple as page protection -- which they could fully understand after,
uhm, two seconds on Google?

And when have we relied on email addresses for anything but Special:EmailUser?

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Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers