On Jan 29, 2008 10:45 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
bathrobecabal.org is not even in the same ballpark as the airline example. In fact, comparing them at all is quite frankly moronic.
Thank you for your kind words.
The .org was bought *after* the creation of the Wikipedia url, and it's
The airline redirected the URL to a long pre-existing article. They thought it was their pre-existing webpage. (After all, it was all about them! :) )
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.
...which has absolutely nothing to do with Wikipedia.
By 'maintained by a devoted Wikipedian' do you mean 'kept in a protected state to inhibit editing by others'?
So, as far as you're concerned I can setup some joke page entirely unrelated to Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Redirect a domain name to it. Use CSS hacks to overwrite the user interface. .. and keep it protected to prevent unapproved people from modifying my website. Did I get that right?
If not, please spell it out for me, because that sounds like what you're claiming.