[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

[The Cunctator]

I agree. Let's remove all content on Wikipedia about the Internet.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> I'm skeptical that we should have an article.
>
> The reason: Wikipedia is on the Internet.  If Wikipedia has an article
> about something whose promoter specifically intends to spread it on the
> Internet, it is impossible to separate reporting from participation.  It's
> a loophole in the definition of neutrality that doing things which help
> one side of a dispute doesn't break neutrality, simply because our
> intentions are neutral--even though our effects are not.
>
> This brings to mind GNAA.  GNAA is a troll group who intentionally gave
> themselves an offensive name so that even mentioning them helped them
> troll.
> Wikipedia had a hard time getting rid of the article about them, because
> we can't say "by using their name, we're helping their goals" in deciding
> whether to have an article.  It was finally deleted by stretching the
> notability rules instead.
>
> And in a related question, I'd ask: Should we have an article "Richard Gere
> gerbil rumor"?  (As long as our article describes the rumor as debunked, of
> course--otherwise we would be directly violating BLP.) Some of the
> justifications for that and for this sound similar.
>
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