[Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

[David Gerard]

On 9 October 2011 22:03, Bob the Wikipedian <bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The fact
> is that a majority of the community expressed it was either a good idea
> or something important to them (interpret that however you care to), and
> Wikimedia finds it important to please the majority of their users.


I think that repeating this trivially false claim is unlikely to
convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you, and will instead
lead them to assume communication is futile.


- d.