Difference between revisions of "Talk:Queer Bash Email Incident"

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An issue with including them in the Mainspace is that they are unlike articles, which are named and written by a community, and revised over time.  Historic documents are not editable.  Making pages exclusively for them, I think, is distinct from and worse than editors' excerpting of useful text, which is great practice.--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 00:19, 16 March 2006 (EST)
 
An issue with including them in the Mainspace is that they are unlike articles, which are named and written by a community, and revised over time.  Historic documents are not editable.  Making pages exclusively for them, I think, is distinct from and worse than editors' excerpting of useful text, which is great practice.--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 00:19, 16 March 2006 (EST)
 
Sorry to add onto the dissent, but I think this goes along with Campus Controversies and Note-Worthy emails, so my comments on those Talk pages are relavent for this page as well. Thanks. -- [[User:06lc|06lc]] 00:35, 16 March 2006 (EST)
 

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"Noteworthy Emails" link

I have deleted the link to the fulltext of referenced emails.

Members of the wiki board are considering how to or not to archive documents like public emails. The relevant public discussion is taking place at Talk:Noteworthy E-mails. Please have your say, and please have it there.

An issue with including them in the Mainspace is that they are unlike articles, which are named and written by a community, and revised over time. Historic documents are not editable. Making pages exclusively for them, I think, is distinct from and worse than editors' excerpting of useful text, which is great practice.--05jl 00:19, 16 March 2006 (EST)