[WikiEN-l] Article about Wikipedia and the Bogdanov affair

Wed Apr 12 20:50:11 UTC 2006

"maru dubshinki" wrote

>This isn't much good to us without a translation- I know my French is
only good enough to catch a little of what you are saying, and you
really should have provided a direct link...
http://www.bogdanov.ch/affaire-bogdanov/wikipedia.htm

The essential in what is indeed quite a long article seems to me in the 
section Bannissement (presque) collectif, which gives a clipping from the 
ArbCom ruling (in English as well as French).  And makes some complaints 
about the handling (which have some merit).

The basic issues are like this:

- where an existing controversy teleports into WP, how to stop the edit 
warring, when it is being fueled elsewhere?

- particularly in such a situation, how to play spot the sockpuppet, without 
biting newbies?

Charles 