[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 22:45:20 UTC 2009


2009/7/29 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, geni wrote:
>> > It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful
>> > are professionals instead of New York Times editors.  If it was the New
>> > York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a
>> > WP:OFFICE.
>> Not really. In this case there are a number editors who've spent
>> significant amounts of time arguing for their inclusion and are not
>> likely to react to well to any attempted removal.
>
> If the New York Times had claimed the information is harmful, Jimbo would have
> deleted the information much earlier--no editor would have gotten a *chance*
> to spend a significant amount of time defending it.  You don't get editors
> investing a lot of time if you make the deletion a fait accompli before a lot
> of time has passed.

Jimbo isn't a commons admin.



-- 
geni



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