[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia unlikely to result in collapse of knowledge

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/7/08, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, and more to the point, that's flying into the face of trouble
> given the zeal with which people like TTN are trying to scour fiction
> articles and plot summaries from the project.

Yes, I would have expected the immediate resumption of the same
behavior that earned him a six-month topic ban to a text-book example
of "exhausting the community's patience".

> If anything the anti-spoiler position is a pleasant nostalgia trip
> compared to the assault on fiction that we're in now.

Agreed, not even in the same ball-park.

—C.W.