[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:News suppression (was: News agencies are not RSs)

[David Gerard]

2009/7/3 Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>:
> Durova wrote:

>> With respect and appreciation extended toward Apoc2400, it's dubious that
>> there would be a need for a separate policy to cover this rare situation.
>> At most, a line or two in existing policy would articulate the matter.

> In practice this is dealt with on a case-by-case basis precisely because
> previous attempts to come up with any sort of actual policy have failed.
> The last major push was around an attempt to keep detailed information
> on the construction of nuclear bombs out of Wikipedia (which failed).


Tangentially, see Cory Doctorow's latest Locus column:

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html

That's about invention, but it's relevant to the question of trying to
keep information out of Wikipedia, i.e. if it's all over the place
then it's difficult for us to pretend it doesn't exist.


- d.