[WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Fred Bauder<fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> 2009/9/9 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
>>> Would you have us do different?
>>
>> I would prefer something more honest, rather than defaming innocent
>> editors trying to add true and verifiable information to articles. I
>> would suggest just protecting the article straight away with a link to
>> the OTRS ticket. Such a protection isn't any less subtle that the
>> current practice, I would argue it is more so.
>
> We need to do something that is both effective and does not attract
> attention. Like maybe deleting and protecting the article and redirecting
> it to the New York Times. And caste it as speedy delete for non-notable
> subject.

Well, posting a plan like that to a publicly archived mailing list is
a good start at not attracting attention.

Carcharoth