[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia Policy as sovereign law

[David Goodman]

note the "in general" . Our purpose is not the defense of the innocent
or the guilty, but the provision of acurate POV information about
matters of concern to the public. The provision of this information is
of general befit to tthe en tire community. We have a responsibility
to our subject, and a eq
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/04/2008, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > In the long run, we avoid harming people in general by telling the
>  >  truth.
>
>  I don't see how that works. If the truth is negative, telling the
>  truth does harm. The net result to society is positive (we generally
>  consider having a free, neutral encyclopaedia a good thing), but that
>  doesn't mean we haven't harmed the subject.
>
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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