On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans. (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet.
Well, at least English language training can help, at least to give people a foundation. And for those with sufficient English proficiency and the interest to come and participate, Wikipedia can give them an education - one way or another. It's in everybody's interest that such education be less "enforced" and be instead more enlightening, and that's why I think people aren't so interested in concepts of "enforcement" as they are in collaboration.
-SV