[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

Thu Feb 19 02:50:00 UTC 2009

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sue Gardner wrote:
>> Interestingly, a number of people complained to me about their
>> articles being overly negative.  Obviously Jimmy gets this all the
>> time, but I was surprised how often it was the first thing a person
>> would say to me. All my conversations about Wikipedia were warm and
>> friendly and positive, with the exception of people's pain/anger about
>> BLP issues.
>>
>>
>
> What you need to remember is that all the people who are
> secretly satisfied their article is remarkably fair to them, or
> even greatly relieved how merciful their article is about their
> various foibles; never mind those who won't say publicly they
> think their article is even far too laudatory ... well, those
> people won't be the first in line to talk about it to you, will
> they. Try to focus on that; when you get in those situations.
>