[Wikipedia-l] non-constructive

[Tom Parmenter]

If we can handle [[Nigger]], we ought to be able to handle [[Aryan]].
That blanket prohibition, however well-meant politically, seems over
the top to me.  My Cambridge Desk Encyclopedia says the Aryans were a
prehistoric Indo-European people who spoke a now lost language.  Is
that not so?

Besides, it's paradoxical to say

  "[The term Aryan] can no longer be used in any constructive way."

which is somewhere between "This page left intentionally blank" and
"This is not a pipe".  

I'd delete the sentence, add an explanation about the
pseudo-historical takeover of the term about the Nazis and forge
ahead.

Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88

|From: Andre Engels <engels at uni-koblenz.de>
|Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:09:44 +0200 (CEST)
|
|I would like to write some stub article on the Aryan invasion in India
|(ca. 1700 BC). However, when I get to the Wikipedia page on 'Aryan', I read
|"[The term Aryan] can no longer be used in any constructive way."
|
|So what am I to do now?
|1. Make up some new word to describe the concept,
|2. Just delete that text from the page,
|3. Just write my own piece as if this text is not there?
|
|Andre Engels
|