Talk:Center for Democracy and Technology/Archives/2012

Fair use rationale for File:CDT logo.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Added some stuff

Hey, I added some information about the particulars of what the CDT does. Feel free to make any changes you feel are necessary. I didn't add very many new sources and mainly used the Google Books sources that were already on the reference list. I felt these were adequate. However, I felt I'd somewhat exhausted those sources, so if the article is to expand more I'd recommend finding new sources of evidence. I also took out a link to "Jerry Berman" that links back to the original page. I would suggest Berman have his own Wikipedia page instead of having it redirect to the CDT page, which doesn't make as much sense. Christopher998 (talk) 03:04, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvements, and I agree about the Jerry Berman link.

However, I have removed the section added here, first because it appears to have been copied from the cited source ([1]) without indicating that it was a quote, and without permission (cf. WP:COPYPASTE), and secondly because on Wikipedia (or more generally in most encyclopedias), precise and factual statements are preferred over vague expressions like "to empower families with the information and tools they need to protect themselves online" or "CDT has been a leader in the effort to assure the safety of children online" - which however are perfectly appropriate in corporate self-descriptions and promotional texts, such as the one that this was taken from. See also WP:PEACOCK. Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:23, 29 May 2011 (UTC)