The facts WOULD NOT BE CHANGED - all it would do is say to a user 'OK,
this page contains this type of content, do you still want to look at it?'
Cynical
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
Regardless of what you call it, the discussion has
been held many
times. There simply isn't anything near consensus for any sort of
censorship in the community (and it is censorship, don't kid yourself,
just read the first sentance in [[Censorship]]). The discussion has
been had, lets just levae it at that.
And frankly, while I agree that some sort of voluntary content control
might be nice, I sorta like the idea that wikipedia will give you the
facts straight up, without any spin, no matter how ugly or morally
reprehensive they may be. Our responsibility is not to make a school
safe version of the facts, our responsibility is to always give the
facts with a neutral point of view. If some schools and libraries
can't agree with that point of view, that's too bad.
On 3/27/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia(a)philwelch.net> wrote:
On Mar 26, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson
wrote:
Look we've been sown this path many times
before, and it's never
gotten us anywhere, infact, all it's done is make people fight and
occasionally force good contributors out because of the hostile mood
of the discussion (Wikipedians for decency/encyclopedic merit and
WP:TOBY for instance). The fact is, far too many wikipedians think
that this kind of censorship is wrong, so you'll NEVER get consensus
on it. This is a discussion that should be killed before it has any
chance to do more harm.
This has nothing to do with censoring Wikipedia. This is about
tagging content so schools (for instance) and filtering software used
by schools can discriminate between Wikipedia articles. Or would you
rather Wikipedia be inaccessible in schools and libraries?
--
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch
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