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

[Fred Bauder]

> 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

Actually, no, that is a throw-away. But we do need to get a little
smarter. We might have something come up that is a bit more serious.

Fred