[Wikipedia-l] Re: Blocking

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 10 21:55:38 UTC 2003


> > It's much easier.  Just do nothing for some days
> and the offender will
> > quickly loose interest in his destructive doings. 
> The real vandals are
> > those who add (commercial) stuff for optimizing
> their search engine
> > results.
> 
> This is an encyclopedia project, not a playground.
> We have a 
> responsibility to our readers to keep the content
> maximally accurate, at 
> all times.
> 
> -- Tim Starling.

In case you forgot, Wikipedia is a wiki. Our sucess is
a direct result of our openness. We can't just say
that, so it's "maximally accurate", that we ban people
that would go away anyway. Wikipedia is a work in
progress.
LDan

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