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How does linking the off-wiki channel help the project? ---[[User:Sluzzelin|Sluzzelin]] [[User talk:Sluzzelin|<small>talk</small>]] 08:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
:Personally I think it's a good idea. Friday what is this "inherent disadvantage" to IRC? That it's not logged so that we can go back and scrutinize everything someone says? I feel a lot more comfortable in an IRC medium than in a WT medium- the person asks and I have a ''conversation'' with the person about it rather than waiting for hours for them to reply and update the section. This does have a less "academic" feel but who cares? They can get their answers faster and topics can be better explored. The channel is on freenode along with [[WP:IRC]], which is advertised across wikipedia as a support medium for the project. This isn't some ref desk fansite, it's an important part of the wikipedia community that's already being used. --[[User:Froth|'''froth''']]<sup>[[User_talk:Froth|<small>t</small>]]</sup> 18:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
:It's a terrible idea. Someone can give simply awful advice - and there is no means to correct that, provide an alternate viewpoint or even discover that it's happened. If someone wants to start a helpline independently of wikipedia, that's fine - there is nothing we can do about it. But the name 'Wikipedia' is copyrighted and you just can't start using it for something else without foundation approval...and trust me, you won't get it. [[User:SteveBaker|SteveBaker]] 16:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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