[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

Steve Summit scs at eskimo.com
Sun Oct 14 20:37:11 UTC 2007


Fred Bauder wrote:
>[I had written:]
>> Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> Obviously we need to make an exception for prominent people whose
>>> viewpoint we support. And by the way, I am not joking.
>>
>> Oh, my.  I really thought you were.  How, then, is this remotely
>> compatible with NPOV?
>
> Not at all. That's why it needs to be out in the open.

Fred, I'm sorry to sound harsh, because you're a respected editor
and an arbcom member and all, but this is what happens when you
cling too desperately to a fundamentally flawed policy: you have
to make increasingly bizarre exceptions in a frantic attempt to
stanch the gushing contradictions.

I didn't think there were exceptions to NPOV -- isn't it one of
the three pillars?  According to [[WP:NPOV]], Jimbo says it's
"absolute and non-negotiable".



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