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

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> Actually, the SOPA blackout notice was developed and deployed by WMF
> staff.



Point of clarification:

Developed and deployed, yes - but at the request of the English Wikipedia
community, in the form of the RFC that was run.

Staff developed it because they could be quickly tasked to it; had the RFC
gone the other way, we wouldn't have intervened.

PB

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