Shall I interpret this to mean you don't see anything positive developing out of this situation? (IMG:
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Thing is, this is the point at which someone who's a real leader, a true visionary, someone with real
guts would stand up and say, "this is my website, I'm ultimately responsible for what goes on here, and I'm going to put a stop to this nonsense. This is over, done, end of story." Someone with the power to make it stick, too (sorry, Yanksox, though it was a good try). Of course, that would also mean deleting and salting the article, and possibly forbidding any further mention of Brandt anywhere on Wikipedia.
But Wikipedia doesn't have anyone like that, do they?
That's really what's so utterly tragic about this whole situation. People are going to fight for their privacy until their dying breath, and not just people whose privacy has been compromised like Brandt's has. Anyone who cares about it is going to keep fighting, and that's not going to change. But all Wikipedia has to do is have one of a thousand admins click a delete link, and then just get everyone to STFU about it. But it's that last bit that really does them in - they just can't bring themselves to do that one little thing, because then there'd be a huge cacophony of whining from...
who, exactly? Nobody knows. It's just really sad, the way they're allowing all that
work, put in by all those well-meaning people, to be marginalized and pissed away like this. Absolutely tragic.
They keep talking about a "slippery slope." Well, y'know, at some point they have to realize that they're not at the top of that slope and trying to keep from sliding down. They have to realize they're at the bottom of the slope, and they'll never get back up that slope as long as they keep peeing all over it.
That analogy kinda sucked, didn't it? I'm going to have to work on that one.
Brandt's article deleted, undeleted, stubbed, ad infinitum..., The BLP war era continues
