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

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/30 Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com>:
> WJhonson wrote:
>> Suppressing the news can't be said to "improve" Wikipedia in any reasonable
>> way.
>
> But we suppress news *all the time*.
> If I added to our [[Shawarma]] article the news that I had one
> for lunch today, that fact would be suppressed in a heartbeat,
> and rightly so.

That's not suppression, it's removal of content that is out of scope
and unverifiable. The intent is significant. Suppression involves
intending to keep people from knowing certain facts.