On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 June 2012 16:02, David Richfield <davidrichfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This must be the most misleading mailing list title I've seen in a >> long time. Almost all of these tropes are untouched: >> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes?from=Main.RapeTropes >> - it seems they just had a problem with Google withdrawing ad revenue >> because they hadn't clearly demarcated all the pages which were not OK >> according to Google's terms. > > > This is pretty much completely wrong, as you'd know if you'd read the > links at the beginning. The pages were already marked "don't put ads > here". Google objected to their presence on the site at all. The pages > were removed, the internet said "wtf" and TVtropes has now restored > them without hearing back from Google.
Wow, they moved fast! I read the blog post and then went to check, and found the supposedly deleted articles up, less than a full day after the original mailing list email, so I assumed there had to be some mistake. How long were the articles actually deleted? -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
