[Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.

[Nathan]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org>
> wrote:
> > On 26/06/2012 2:02 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has
> been
> >> forced to censor a
> >> number of pages due to advertiser pressure.
> >>
> >
> > And thus is the wisdom of eschewing advertizement and sponsorship
> > highlighted for all too see.  I've always supported the model of yearly
> > donation drives to avoid it -- occasionally creepy Jimmy pictures
> > notwithstanding -- and this is the reason why.
> >
> > We are, like it or not, in a society increasingly driven by marketeers
> and
> > focus groups; being at the mercy of entities who care nothing for
> > information or knowledge so long as their precious *image* is pristine is
> > the norm, and Wikipedia remains a bastion of sanity in that sea of
> madness.
> >
> > -- Coren / Marc
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps the next time someone brings up the "WMF should accept ads!"
> bit, we can point back to this thread to explain why when we respond
> "That would be the end of neutrality," we are not exaggerating.
>

Someone else will just cleverly point out the differences between Wikipedia
and TVTropes, which are many. Using a wiki platform does not make
comparisons between the two apples to apples.

~Nathan