[WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/4/2008 12:16:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
cdhowie at gmail.com writes:


> A ridiculous claim.  How does this play out for people who have not
> used, heard of, nor care about Wikipedia and yet are the subject of an
> existing article with a history of heated debate?>>
> 

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Heated debate is not libel.
Heated debate does not require oversight.
And heated debate is not necessarily personally negative.

I'm trying to keep this thread *on track* :)
All these excursions make me wonder exactly what people think is really going 
on here.  We are not trying to put out the fires.  We want the fires.  The 
fires are part of normal debate on controversial subjects.  That is simply a 
part of real life.

I had *thought* the point here in this thread, that we'd want to address, are 
those situations  where libelous, scandalous, unwarranted accusations are 
being thrown about willy-nilly (which is quite rare).  For which we have 
oversight.  So far I've seen no valid, logical argument that we need anything more 
than oversight.

I'm quite sure that subjects of "heated debate" already know how to handle 
"the press" (which includes biographers like us) and that we don't need 
brand-new mechanisms to address that.  There are old mechanisms, which are working 
just fine.

Will Johnson


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