<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/16/2003 8:48:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, zoecomnena@yahoo.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">--- koyaanis qatsi <obchodnakorze@yahoo.com> wrote:<BR>
>Two points: one purely logical, the other political.<BR>
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>1) the logical:<BR>
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>Our goal is, and let me reiterate this for those of<BR>
>you who have forgotten, to make a complete, factual,<BR>
>NPOV encyclopedia. The only viable, though tedious<BR>
>and laborious, option in implementing filters on<BR>
>wikipedia would be to cite who believes what about<BR>
>which article--e.g. "George W. Bush believes this<BR>
>article was written by an anti-capitalist scumbag." <BR>
>"Osama bin Laden says Allah will strike down the<BR>
>infidel who gave voice to these words." "Robert<BR>
>Mapplethorpe says this article is less explicit than<BR>
>the dreams he had when he was 12." Otherwise, when<BR>
>we<BR>
>decide what is "explicit" or "controversial," we<BR>
>will<BR>
>be labeling the articles with a POV. It may be a<BR>
>common POV, or an uncommon POV, but it will be a<BR>
>POV. <BR>
>It will, furthermore, be the "official" wikipedia<BR>
>POV.<BR>
> Wikipedia is not supposed to voice a POV. Voicing<BR>
>a<BR>
>POV = bad. Contrary to mission. Not voicing a POV<BR>
>=<BR>
>good. In keeping with mission.<BR>
><BR>
>Wikipedia is not your mother, or your thoughtful<BR>
>well-intentioned son. It is an encyclopedia. In<BR>
>keeping with the general purpose of encyclopedias,<BR>
>it<BR>
>presents information. Some of you will not like<BR>
>information. Those of you who do not like<BR>
>information<BR>
>will be at the wrong site. Don't complain to<BR>
>Firestone because they sell tires and not pizza.<BR>
><BR>
>2) the political:<BR>
><BR>
>And, since you've brought the children into it when<BR>
>they're not relevant, let me bring *you* into it<BR>
>when<BR>
>you are: There are people throughout the world<BR>
>dying<BR>
>of starvation, some of them so desperate for food<BR>
>that<BR>
>they look through feces for undigested kernels of<BR>
>corn. Already I hear you saying "Whoa! Hey! the<BR>
>details of your miserable life are too 'explicit'<BR>
>for<BR>
>me and my 200-pound 8 year-old son, driving down the<BR>
>street in an SUV eating a McRibs Deluxe." I say to<BR>
>you, you are the posterchilds for miseducation, for<BR>
>fear, for censorship and everything wikipedia<BR>
>doesn't<BR>
>stand for: you've so come to love the weight of<BR>
>your<BR>
>own ignorance, that yoke on your shoulders, that you<BR>
>miss its caress when it's gone. Go in peace, but<BR>
>please do go.<BR>
><BR>
>kq<BR>
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Thanks, KQ. Well said!</FONT></HTML>