[Campaigns-l] Candidate Inclusion

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Aug 11 10:53:39 UTC 2006


Jonathan Trenn wrote:
>  In fact, one the sources of the most trouble for Wikipedia have been 
> staffers in congressional offices either praising those they support 
> and attacking those that they oppose...often with misleading statements.
>  
Actually, this has been basically no trouble at all for Wikipedia.  
Don't believe everything you read in the broadcast media. :)

> Since that has been an unfortunate trend, I'm saying that we're likely 
> to see that same thing happen here.  We need to be cognizant of that. 

Yes, we do need to keep an eye on it for sure.  If nothing else, it is a 
great way to get attention for our work if any political staffers do 
things particularly juvenile.
:)





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