On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Scott MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > When a victim tries to get a correction, the whole deck is stacked against > them. Edit Wikipedia and get hit with COI. E-mail OTRS and you're dealing > with a non-editorial non-authority, who might not believe who you are, and > probably won't accept your own testimony as other than worthless. Even if > you convince the OTRS person, he might well get reverted by someone who > can't see the e-mails. OTRS is not that bad, at least as far as I know. The volunteers there are supposed to be friendly (at least polite) as long as the person does not behave very aggresively. The only problem I am aware of is backlog ([[m:OTRS/volunteering]] is the only answer here).
> Now, along comes another way of people setting the record straight, and you > reject it because a) it doesn't comply with policy b) people may pay $1,000 > to impersonate someone c) you choose to be cynical about their identity > checking d) it doesn't make sense to you. It would have the same value as the statement published on the person's own website; I see no reason to give it more value than any other statement issued by the person in question themselves. > The bottom line is that you are representative of the most cynical, > irresponsible BLP attitudes on Wikipedia, and if we were serious about our > responsibilities here, people with you cavalier attitude would be banned > from BLPs, and BLP process, as a positive menace. > That sort of personal attack would do no good, please refrain from it. --vvv _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
