[WikiEN-l] Deleting the Lolicon picture

Fri Apr 7 13:49:12 UTC 2006

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> Sam Korn wrote:
>> BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
>>> Would you please mind telling a curious reader how this image either
>>> is harmful to Wikipedia or has the potential to harm Wikipedia?
>>
>> In that it provides an easy way for detractors to rubbish Wikipedia,
>> in that it has the potential to make Wikipedia harder to access for
>> some people (particularly children with parental control programs) and
> 
> Why is it a bad thing that detractors have an easy way to rubbish
> Wikipedia? Doesn't detractors already have about one million other
> things about Wikipedai that they can complain about? Quality not
> popularity.
> 

We're less likely to be sued?

>>> This seem to indicate that people disagree with you, why do they do that?
>>
>> As far as I can tell, a good number (*not* all) of the people
>> discussing the matter on IfD were POV-pushing trolls.  IfD has long
>> shown itself incapable of deleting anything where there is a vague
>> controversy and where groups of POV-pushers are manifesting
>> themselves.
> 
> You lost when you started to apply denigrating labels on people. I
> don't think it is strange that you thougth that "the process was
> demonstrably broken" when you belittled those you were supposed to
> work with.
> 

*cough*

He said the /process/, not the people running it (although apparantly,
*I* have made attacks on those lowlife scum at xFD, yada yada...).

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