From wikien-l  Thu Dec 08 12:23:55 2005
From: Elisabeth Bauer <elian () djini ! de>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:23:55 +0000
To: wikien-l
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The downside to requiring account creation. See also:
Message-Id: <439825DB.7070502 () djini ! de>
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Brian schrieb:
> I'm still officially on wikibreak (can that be official? =) but I just wanted to
> drop a note here on my take on these new restrictions.
> 
> Many feel that the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] was only passed on the basis of it being
> a highly emotional, gut reaction. Pretty much everyone was OK with it at first,
> but over time a lot of Americans have come to wonder if it violates some of our
> very basic principles. That's just a surface analogy - don't read into it too
> far. The point is that, whether or not it is a perennial suggestion, and whether
> or not an article existed for several months and displayed a prominent person as
> an assassin, we should absolutely not go against the principles that got us
> here.

[...]

Thank you for putting this into such clear words. There are a lot of
ideas floating around how to improve article control without giving up
our essential principle of openness. I think it is worth exploring these
first.

greetings,
elian

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