Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
Jimmy Wales schreef:
The only real question is where and how to draw the line, but we are actually fortunate in this regard: there are virtually no borderline cases as an empirical matter.
They may be a minority, but most of the recent discussion was about borderline cases. The Nielsen Hayden blog, the WikipediaReview Signpost article, the Michael Moore site.
Perhaps you don't hink these are borderline, but in each of these cases I've seen people arguing on both sides.
Fair enough, the middle does need to be clarified. And maybe the conversation can proceed in a calm way if we remember that we do have a pretty easy consensus on the extremes and are quibbling thoughtfully over some middle points.
I still think it is not that hard, but I suppose I might be coming at this from my own perspective (that it is overboard to hastily remove links to a legitimate blog or to Michael Moore's site which is doing something irritating at the moment).