This group, however fringy, is a very well organized professionally-run enterprise devoted to lobbying, with immense influence and a history of considerable success in influencing media, fairly and perhaps otherwise. We have not previously encountered any organization with its resources.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Jon wrote:
White Cat wrote:
Although it is a well known issue, this issue has finally made its way to spotlight with the ongoing CAMERA incident on English wikipedia... I am sure English wikipedia's arbcom will come up with a reasonable conclusion and the purpose of this email is not related to the CAMERA arbcom case directly.
What is this all about, and what is the CAMERA incident?
I asked on irc
Following links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-05-02/In_the_... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_n...
Strikes me as a routine incident of ravings from the lunatic fringe. We do ourselves just as much harm by attaching more importance to these people than they deserve.
Ec
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