[WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services

Thu May 5 20:38:14 UTC 2005

Is this group itself even notable? 5,100 Google hits, and minusing the
Usenet indexes, thats not much.

As for mentioning names, I think it is fine, if presented in the right way.
Saying "Given the 'honour' of being named 'Kook of the Year'" isn't really
the way to put it, as stating 'honour' in quotation marks is NPOV in itself.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gerard" <fun at thingy.apana.org.au>
To: <slimvirgin at gmail.com>; "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services

> slimvirgin at gmail.com (slimvirgin at gmail.com) [050506 06:15]:
> > On 5/5/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> > > Actually famous Usenet crank. More coherent than Sollog. Lots of
material
> > > on skeptictank.com .
>
> > I think the point here is that WP policy states that we must used only
> > reputable or credible published sources as secondary sources, and
> > Usenet doesn't count as that. It can be used as primary-source
> > material for information about itself, but it can't be used as a
> > secondary source of information about someone else, especially not
> > when we're using a person's real name (unlike the case of Sollog).
>
>
> Uh, [[alt.usenet.kooks]] is an article about a Usenet group.
>
>
> - d.
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