[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is ... free web hosting?

[Steven Walling]

bathrobecabal.org is not even in the same ballpark as the airline example.
In fact, comparing them at all is quite frankly moronic.

The .org was bought *after* the creation of the Wikipedia url, and it's
maintained by a devoted Wikipedian who didn't want others subverting a url
that applied to their self-categorization.  It's not even group that does
anything  as a unit, it's actually a joke about taking a picure of yourself
wearing a bathrobe.

On Jan 29, 2008 4:15 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think there is a problem, but if you do MfD is the way to go.
> >
> > Personally, I don't see that a pass is being given to admins to
> > violate policy because they are admins. It looks to me like it is a
> > group of longtime and active contributors who are using some IAR
> > leeway to have a little fun. The leeway is extended to them because
> > I'm pretty sure pissing them off and having them leave would do a
> > whole lot more damage than allowing a few subpages (using up how much
> > space and bandwidth again?) to continue to exist. The issue of the
> > domain name is a red herring - it has no practical effect on Wikipedia
> > at all. It doesn't draw in outside users, it doesn't cost Wikimedia
> > anything, it doesn't allow them any access they wouldn't otherwise
> > have. Its basically the same as a tinyurl address or favorites link.
>
> If they leave because a userspace page, which was not promoting
> collaboration on wikipedia articles, was deleted then they were *not
> valuable* to the encyclopedia. Its not like the encylopedia would be
> practically affected by a deletion of a social networking user page.
> It could however be affected if others figure out that admins aren't
> consistent and chuck a fuss because their Userspace pages were deleted
> for the same reason that page was kept in a shortened discussion.
>
> > When it becomes a focal point for their activity, a distraction for
> > other users or a source of disruption I will of course join you in
> > voting delete in an MfD.
>
> Too soon for another MfD, you would just get the creators of the page
> voting Keep again and possibly pulling in loyalty votes as such. Maybe
> once discussion had died down here it would be reasonable to try
> again.
>
> Peter
>
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