[WikiEN-l] Demi Moore BLP name

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Arromdee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Demi_Moore Summary: Demi Moore, in a tweet but verified as being her, says that her own birth name is Demi. Wikipedians do not want to use this statement because the reliable sources say otherwise. ___ WikiEN-l mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Demi Moore BLP name

2011-12-03 Thread Steve Summit
Ken Arromdee wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Demi_Moore Summary: Demi Moore, in a tweet but verified as being her, says that her own birth name is Demi. Wikipedians do not want to use this statement because the reliable sources say otherwise. And, per that talk page, they've got

Re: [WikiEN-l] Demi Moore BLP name

2011-12-03 Thread The Cunctator
I've cleaned it up. ... and, it's been reverted back into its crufty revisionism. Good job, Tenebrae. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Ken Arromdee wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Demi_Moore Summary: Demi Moore, in a tweet but verified as being

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote: Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to interact--the wiki,

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread Nathan
There's sort of two components to this problem. There's the human behavior component, which is a super tough nut to crack. And then there is the institutional component; among the most common complaints about Wikipedia are its bureaucracy and the complexity of contributing. Solving the