On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10 May 2010 23:39, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
The problem there is the name. If you call it
censorship (which it
isn't) then people oppose it. If you don't call it censorship, people
will still wave the "not censored" banner. The idea of Wikipedia not
On the talk page, I mostly see people calling it out for the
censorship stalking horse it was.
You can tag a goat "a very special sort of chicken," but people will
see through that.
So you are saying anything labelled "content guidelines" will be
called "censorship"? That's silly. You have to have limits when
writing an encyclopedia, otherwise you just end up with a mess like
the internet.
Carcharoth