[Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon global Wikimedian principles

[Chad]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Dror K <dror1975 at icqmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> 3. Polling - can a Wikipedian community vote about excluding a certain
> person from writing? Can it vote about whether to except a certain
> source? Can the Spanish Wikipedia decide a source from Japan will never
> be regarded reliable?
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> Dror
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The answer to your question is yes. They can and they do. The
English Wikipedia commonly votes to ban individual users, typically
disguised as "Discussing a community ban."

As far as sources go: each project is allowed to set the standard of
inclusion. Some may choose to require more-high-profile sources,
while others might accept a blog as a source.

This seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem.

-Chad