Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Afrikaans Wikipedia and Scientology

2020-07-14 Thread David Richfield
Absolutely! I only sent this mail because I had been blocked, and of course the discussion should take place on afwiki. Thanks for the unblock. Now time for cool heads :-) Ian Gilfillan schrieb am Mi., 15. Juli 2020, 02:11: > Thanks David for raising the issue and reaching out. > > Can I sugg

Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Afrikaans Wikipedia and Scientology

2020-07-14 Thread Ian Gilfillan
Thanks David for raising the issue and reaching out. Can I suggest though that this discussion gets moved to the Afrikaans Wikipedia talk pages.  If the mailing list gets used for every edit dispute we'd all be swamped! On 2020/07/15 01:27, David Richfield wrote: I went to the effort of doin

Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Afrikaans Wikipedia and Scientology

2020-07-14 Thread David Richfield
I went to the effort of doing a complete translation of the excellent, balanced, extensive German article, and uploaded it from the translation tool, and as soon as I started fixing formatting issues, I realised that a minute after uploading the article I had been blocked by Voyageur, who restored

Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Afrikaans Wikipedia and Scientology

2020-07-14 Thread Douglas Scott
I find myself agreeing with David on this. Although my opinion on the article does not really matter. What does matter is that at first glance it does look non-NPOV. I think David has done the right thing by being bold. An action that we should all be open to taking when we see things that need cha