George Herbert wrote:
On 6/21/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I think that the first is true, and if not we should seriously look at why not. I think that there is no reason for the second to be true.
There is. Long term semi protection really only hits a very small number of subjects. The number of subjects that enough people feel strong about to cause a problem is unlikely to increase.
You might be right, but it doesn't strike me as obviously so. [...]
Empirically I find it to be true. It's amazing how many people will fight tooth and nail to get their POV into [[X]], while being oblivious to [[History of X]], [[X and Y]], [[X-Z effect]], [[list of Xes]], etc, all of which will have extensive material inconsistent with the wanted POV. (My unkind belief is that POV pushers are simply not smart enough to figure out that the encyclopedia has more than one article.)
There are alway outliers of course - I'm no longer amazed at how even the most obscure topic can push *somebody's* button. We have talk pages with three-year-old streams of invective that have yet to find anybody else who cares...
Stan