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First, this may be all water under the bridge since the board has decided to 1) Post public e-mails in a central archive with no commentary (e.g., [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/images/3/3b/William_Lenhart_to_the_Williams_Community_-_1_November_2004.txt here]; 2) To not maintain private e-mails. Second, if you think that pages about things like Nigaleian or QBE are not "not necessary or appropriate" you should bring it up with the board. I believe that they have decided to include such pages in Willipedia. Third, if you think that I (or any other contributor to Willipedia) have "presented particular facts and data in such a way that the reader's opinion is instantly colored by the opinion of the presenter" in an unhelpful way, you need merely edit that presentation. You have the power. (I do not think that this is a fair characterization, by the way.) --[[User:Dkane|Dkane]] 16:09, 16 March 2006 (EST)
'''Action taken by the [[Willipedia board]] on this article.''' Last night, a member of the board cleared the initial content of this article as we sought a better way to archive historical content. As DKane wrote above, we are going to try this for now:
# Because historical documents are not for editing, like a wiki article needs to be, they are more like media and will be treated as media -- like the pictures etc. you can upload and link to in articles at [[Special:Upload]].
# Public emails are fine to upload as .txt files. "Public" means that the author of the text sent his email to campus@wso, williams-students, or a similar target that a sender expects will make his words public.
# Emails to individuals and student organizations, "private" emails, will not be allowed in the Willipedia archives.
#Writers may still, and are encouraged to, synthesize quotes and excerpts from documents into their writing. Footnoting such short portions with a link to the full document you've uploaded to the Media section is great, if you deem it fit.
We thank all above who joined the discussion on this page, and still welcome more here and on other talk pages, as you also go about making the changes you want to see.
--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 18:03, 16 March 2006 (EST)