[Foundation-l] Cleaning up Wikibooks (was Re: Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects)

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Nov 25 21:37:59 UTC 2005


Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>>>The user that added this white power book has otherwise done Wikibooks
>>>quite a bit of good, and banning him would only make an enemy rather
>>>than a useful contributor.
>>
>>I very strongly disagree.  Wikibooks does not need such books, and it
>>was an is an embarassment to see such a thing.
>>
>>--Jimbo
> 
> 
> I agree that Wikibooks doesn't need such books, and I'm sure you were
> embarassed to see it.  But that doesn't mean you need to ban the
> person who added it.

I didn't.  But if someone did, and the ban were appealed to me, I would
let it stand.

--Jimbo



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