On 30/03/2008, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
> "ERZURUM - The Turkish Association for
Fight Against Unfounded
> Genocide Allegations (ASIMED) launched an e-mail campaign against
> Wikipedia urging it to remove the "Semi-Protection" lock over the
> article on Armenian allegations concerning the incidents of 1915."
I realize that, having been partially suckered by
their ploy,
I'm not the best person to be expressing outrage here, but:
what can they possibly be thinking? Do they even understand what
"semi-protection" actually means? Surely they realize that a
contentious issue like this one is much better served by limiting
the editing activity to registered users, rather than letting in
any random anonymous-IP drive-by editor...
Suckered? If you went to the article to see if you had something
useful to add to the discussion of article consensus, that's a win for
us I think. We can honestly say "it has drawn editorial attention to
the article in question, which helps do a better job of the process of
collectively writing a neutral encyclopedia."
- d.