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

[wjhonson at aol.com]

We are supposed to be community-driven.
Where is the community consensus on media blackouts?
Link please.

Will Johnson



-----Original Message-----
From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT 
reporter in Afghanistan










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

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