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

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Nathan wrote:
>It's simple. The WMF didn't do anything. The English Wikipedia did. That
>project effectively changed the content of the entire encyclopedia for
>political reasons. That is the condicio sine qua non for abandoning
>neutrality. You might say it was done for great reasons, and that it
>doesn't corrupt the principle of neutrality generally or imperil the
>reputation of the project, etc. But it's impossible to rationally argue
>that the SOPA/PIPA protest didn't temporarily set aside neutrality.

"Neutrality" is an "article" concept, not a "project" concept and the
protest did not change articles, it rendered them hard to access and
different content was rendered in their stead, and that fact was very
obvious. If the "project" was "neutral", in the sense the concept is
defined for articles, it would be defined be how it is seen by others.
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