> on 4/19/07 6:51 PM, Jason McCabe Calacanis at
jason(a)calacanis.com wrote:
>
>> People searching for this subject material are going to be, in many/most
>> cases, in need of help.
>>
>> Perhaps there is an opportunity here to leave the page without the methods
>> and
>> post a note that community doesn't feel comfortble posting such material and
>> then linking to various support services.
>>
>> Sort of a honey trap to help people in need... Thinking outside the box
>> here.
>>
>> Best j
>
Marc Riddell wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Excellent insight; and excellent, excellent idea!
Jason,
I still stand by your idea. It is the most sensitive and sensible
alternative presented yet.
Marc
on 4/19/07 12:01 PM, Bryan Derksen at bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca wrote:
I'd have no problem with including a few links to
support services
somewhere in the article, but this is not really Wikipedia's
responsibility and the information content of the page shouldn't suffer
as a result.
It it the very information content of the page that I'm in dispute with.
Should web sites dedicated to depressing poetry or
handguns
also blank their content and replace it with suicide prevention counselling?
C'mon, Bryan, isn't that reaching just a bit ;-).
Bear in mind that a good many people who consult this
article are not
necessarily themselves suicidal. There are people out there who are
writing school essays or reports that cover the topic, or people who
heard about some celebrity suicide and are curious about how others have
done it, or people who are writing works of fiction and need some ideas
for how a character might kill himself, etc. Wikipedia is here to serve
all of these people too and what they need is a high-quality
encyclopedia article packed with useful NPOV information about the subject.
You make a good point here. Right now I don't have an answer to it. I just
know that a "how-to" article on suicide seems very wrong to me.
Marc