[WikiEN-l] Proposal: limited extension of semi-protection
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Thu May 25 21:01:51 UTC 2006
Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 5/25/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>> But, she has a stalker.
>>
>> The stalker posts longwinded ranting criticisms and insults of her.
>
> After posting them to his blog, he adds them to Wikipedia. That, at
> least, seems to be the usual way in which we receive these
> "criticisms", which makes it rather easy to justify removing them. I
> have yet to see the case where the _community_, after looking into a
> matter, has erred on the side of inclusion of bad, incoherent
> material.
Agreed. As I said, judging things like this is something that we are
quite good at, as a community.
The point of my example was to show that there is no simple binary
answer to questions like that. Each case requires judgment of
thoughtful editors.
--Jimbo
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