On 6/5/06, Sam Spade <samspade.thomasjefferson(a)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