I think it was certainly a very dick move to impose it on the community - when the first proposal raised clear objections.
I know we pointed them at RCOM/Foundation at that point, but I don't think that was with the implicit agreement that whatever they came up with would be acceptable... Tom On 9 December 2011 09:41, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: > I have raised my concerns for this appearing to be an advert on IRC > with RCOM the DEV team and then on-wiki with Philippe. RCOM have > pointed me to the WMF and the WMF said it's not their problem and > pointed me back to RCOM. There is a claim that the central notice was > agreed with the community but this does not appear to yet be supported > with evidence. > > I have raised my personal opinion at > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Harvard.2FScience_Po_Adverts> > where any of my fellow Wikipedians are free to add their own. > > Note, during the IRC chat it was pointed out to me that Google or a > telecoms company could easily be next, there is no restriction for > central notices of this type on what logos or other forms of > advertising they might carry under a claim that this would make the > sponsorship arrangement clear. Considering Jimbo's statements that > Wikipedia will never carry advertising, I think this puts us all in an > uncomfortable position. > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae > Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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