On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Lilliputian nationalist form a network and come over
to Wikipedia, turning
the article about Blefuscu into a travesty. A lone Blefuscu native sees
the
imbalance and tries to address it, engaging in mediation and eventually
arbitration. Afterward the Lilliputians successfully get the Blefuscuan
topic banned because the Blefuscuan isn't adding to the imbalance of
negative information about his own country.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
I'm afraid the proposal will work to the advantage
of one side of the
dispute, to the detriment of the other. One side is generally well
educated and familiar with looking at both sides of an issue; the other
is not, with no meaningful access to either education or sophisticated
cultural memes.
Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the
other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how
does it help our
discussion to to say either of these things?
-SV