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<DIV><FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>While the rest of the world came
to to the conclusion that America is just a jumped up banana-republic junta
run by a bunch of crypto-fascists with a finger glued permanently to the
self-destruct button a long time ago, you're not allowed to point it
out in Wikipedia. How thoroughly refreshing to be working on such an
enlightened project. Dickens' Ministry of Circumlocution would have been proud
of the people who deleted that page.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>rgds</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Callaway</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lapollutionestsimauvaise@yahoo.com
href="mailto:lapollutionestsimauvaise@yahoo.com">Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons]</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org
href="mailto:wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org">wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 11, 2002 11:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Wikipedia-l] voting</DIV>
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<P>We need voting. Some people here are advocating for a "republic". Who are
they to declare that they are an expert on experts? We must have voting. There
are issues to be resolved. Obviously we do not want to be dominated by a
"majority" of generated IPs. But we must have voting. </P>
<P>We must end the nonsense. Never again must a page like, "Anti-American
Wikipedians" be deleted on the say-so of some elitist. We must vote on such
issues. Never again should the name of Munchen or Colombo be decided by
some American with administrative powers. We must vote on such issues and we
must start this voting process soon.</P>
<P>Democracy is a difficult concept. Should we accept it we are then facecd
with the decision of whether to have a representative or pure democracy. I
argue, in the spirit of the founding fathers of America (who argued for a
blend between a republic and a pure democracy ie the representative
democracy), I argue for a blend between the pure democracy and the
representative democracy.</P>
<P>We must have a vote. This first vote is very simple. It will ask</P>
<P>Should we start voting?</P>
<P>One can either say Yes, No, or give a user name. If you give a user name
then your vote will be identical to that users vote. In that manner, somebody
that is unsure of what to vote for, can give way to another whom they believe
will make the correct choice.</P>
<P>Once we have a decision to start voting we can then work out the details of
such a proces, THROUGH VOTING. </P>
<P>There is one minor detail that must be decided and that is, "Who can vote
in this first question?" Shall we limit it to mav and larry sanger? Perhaps we
will let Epopt and Cunctuator contribute their opinion as well. On the other
hand we could let everyone vote and Fucking Asshole, Lear, and 63.32 will
weigh in heavily with their opinions.</P>
<P>This decision must be made. We must vote and we must choose who can vote.
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