On 31/12/2008, toddmallen(a)gmail.com <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
NPOV is not just a rule. It's what allows us to
have a project at all. It is
not "right" to violate NPOV because reality hurts someone's feelings.
Reality frequently is painful. It's neither possible nor our job to change
that.
It's our job to make a neutral, factual, verifiable reference work. Not to
impose our notions of right and wrong.
That is A definition of right and wrong, you're saying that the
wikipedia is more important than individuals. You're valuing the
wikipedia more than them. That's your right. But it's also his right
to value individuals above the wikipedia.
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From: Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net>
Subj: Re: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 toddmallen(a)gmail.com wrote:
I've even been told, by someone who should
know better, that BLP is
more important than NPOV, and saw not a bit of outrage.
NPOV is a rule. BLP is about doing what's right.
Some people elevate rules over doing what's right. I'm not one of them.
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.