On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't spend a lot of time on on Wikipedia itself these days,
Clearly not. Removing general discussion from talk pages is standard practice. > but when > did the project start censoring talk pages, or is > [[User:Faithlessthewonderboy]] just going ahead and making up his own > rules. This came up at [[Talk:Larissa Kelly]] about the /Jeopardy/ > contestant. Her Wikipedia article was a topic of discussion during the > chat portion of a recent program in a way that could be taken as > criticism of deletionists. I disagree (but can understand) why some > people don't want this mentioned in Mainspace, but suppressing this > harmless discussion on the talk page beggars belief. This censor seems > to have the idea that anything which "does not pertain to improving the > article" should be removed from the article, and that merely being > trivial is hurtful. > > Talk pages are not article space, and these pages have traditionally > served as a more relaxed place where there is wide latitude for > discussion, and where otherwise nasty conflicts can be defused. While > there are certain overtly nasty things can and should be removed from a > talk page, these situations are really the rare exception. Most issues > that can be considered trivial or off-topic in the widest sense of those > terms tend to be talked out quickly, and to be subsequently ignored > without harm. When we start suppressing valid criticism from the talk > pages, we've dug ourselves a deeper hole than I had previously imagined. > > > Ec > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
