On 6/5/06, Sam Spade samspade.thomasjefferson@googlemail.com wrote:
Well thank you Steve. If there had been a method of determining which version was prefered, it certainly would have saved us all alot of time and trouble. Unfortunately, each of our opinions are just as arbitrary as yours.
Wikipedia would not work if we stopped at "each of our opinions are...arbitrary". Maybe our opinions have arbitrary starting points, but we work towards compromise and agreement by discussion. If you don't like my "opinion" (I would have called it criticism), I would welcome your explanation of why, the strong points of your version etc. Lining people up in camps and dismissing their opinion as "arbitrary" or biased (and I'm not accusing you of this) is antithetical to Wikipedia's functioning.
To the peanut gallary, no, my opinions are not always facts, but the information I was inserting into the respective articles is. Check the cites.
A "cite" does not make a fact, and it does not make something worthy of conclusion.
Steve