On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:11:45AM +0000, Tony Sidaway wrote:
I don't want to stop new editors classifying
themselves by politics or
religion. I want to stop them abusing powerful Wikipedia resources
such as templates and categories in order to find people who share
their opinions, because this would be the end of consensus-based
decision-making on Wikipedia.
Hear, hear. This is much the same situation as Wikipedians for Decency
-- which sought to create a "WikiProject" for the purpose of alerting
pro-censorship editors to the presence of sexual content in articles --
only multiplied many times over.
We have an NPOV policy for this encyclopedia project of ours. A logical
consequence of this is that it's not OK to use project resources for the
purpose of contravening that policy.
Instead of helping all the Catholics or Communists or Conspiracy-buffs
to hook up and help each other in revert wars, maybe we should be
finding ways of helping people of -differing- views come together and
develop mutual respect so we can work to improve the neutrality and
well-roundedness of articles.
--
Karl A. Krueger <kkrueger(a)whoi.edu>