On Sunday 10 November 2002 05:01 pm, wikipedia-l-request(a)wikipedia.org wrote:
On 10-11-2002, Daniel Mayer wrote thusly :
> Lir just made a Wikipedians page titled "Anti-American_users" which has
> (as the title would indicate) caused a storm of unproductive flames.
> Pages like this shouldn't exist because of the divisiveness they cause.
> They do not further our goal of creating an encyclopedia and only lead to
> mean spiritedness. I vote for removal. See the talk page for more.
>
>
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedians/Anti-American_users
I agree with you and vote for removal too.
Is it at all possible to work out policies to discourage political POV
and propaganda that is totally against the principal goals of Wikipedia ?
I'd rather refrain from any hard security measures.
Regards,
Kpjas.
We usually move hopelessly POV stuff to Meta. I vote for moving ALL the
Wikipedia/foo pages there (even the geographic based categories). IMO the
Wikiepdians page at en.wiki should be a alphabetic list with a link to the
the chronological "history" list that states when each user joined.
We needn't set-up different factions of users by having other categories. If
somebody is interested then they can visit the POV-friendly Meta to find out
more by following /one/ vanilla link from the Wikipedians page. I still
wouldn't enjoy seeing the Anti-American page but I really couldn't complain
much if it is in Meta.wiki - which is already filled with POV material.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)