On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 13 November 2012 22:29, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That's not entirely fair, for several reasons:
> > Until recently, the Contact Us page and the pages you were directed to
> when
> > you wanted to report a problem were an absolute maze:
>
>
> Bollocks. The case is about Finsbury removing well-referenced
> information to attempt to cleanse a client's entry. You are stretching
> beyond sanity to paint their actions as in any way reasonably
> acceptable.
>
>
> - d.


You may have noticed that I don't like the idea of Usmanov's biography
being sanitised, and posted on its talk page to that effect.

But this is a completely different matter from the way Wikipedia handles
complaints. Wikipedia gets anonymous contributions that spin just as well
as the best PR companies, only negatively, and there must be a way for
justifiably aggrieved biography subjects to get some satisfaction.

Francis Ingham, the guy who made that comment about Wikipedia's cumbersome
and opaque complaints system, is the PRCA director-general, and he does not
work for Finsbury as far as I know. And it so happens I and Tom Morris here
for example said exactly the same thing about the complaints system until a
few weeks ago – until Oliver revamped the whole thing.

That still doesn't mean every OTRS e-mail will get a prompt reply, but it's
a step in the right direction.

Andreas
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