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

[Elias Friedman]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Chris Howie
>




Oh, but it's from a "Reliable Source", so it must be right!


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