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

[WereSpielChequers]

Kudos to Andreas for notifying Cirt so quickly after my suggestion,
but may I suggest that we review the rules for this mailing list?

Currently neither
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l#Rules nor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette which it links to
via a redirect explicitly require that editors are notified about
discussions about them.

ANI by contrast explicitly requires people to notify the editor who
you are making a complaint about.

May I suggest that we do the same?

WereSpielChequers


On 25 May 2011 21:17, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> I'm not surprised that a Wikipedia article shoots to the top of Google
>> searches, isn't that one of the reasons why we write here? I'm pretty
>> sure I've seen Wikipedia articles come top on Google even if they lack
>> templates and are practically orphans.
>>
>> Nor am I surprised that someone who writes an article then goes and
>> creates associated templates. I don't do much with templates but I
>> have a similar editing pattern - I was in the British Museum for the
>> Hoxne Hoard challenge and wound up contributing a number of edits to
>> articles about the sorts of spoons that were in the hoard.
>>
>> I am concerned at the risk of the mailing list degenerating into some
>> sort of back channel and disrupting the wiki. People using it for off
>> wiki complaints about an AFD and criticism of individual wikipedians
>> who may not be subscribing  to this list is in my view unhealthy.
>>
>> Have any of the people expressing disquiet about that editor notified
>> them of this thread?
>>
>> WereSpielChequers
>
> Cirt has been notified and has read the thread. However, you are correct
> that we have more or less completed what can appropriately been done on a
> mailing list.
>
> Fred
>
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