[WikiEN-l] Proposal: limited extension of semi-protection

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