You've made my point. Thank you! :-) Ec
Rick wrote:
Leave it to you to start making personal attacks.
RickK
Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote: >Rick wrote: > >>My concern was not with some place that claims to have invented the >>hamburger: it was just that the original poster was adding >>off-the-cuff pizza places that, at least as far as was indicated in >>the article, had no particular significance except possibly to the >>poster. To me, this is POV: "These are the places you should eat at, >>not any others." >> >Possibly it's POV, but I don't read it exactly that way. I'd say that >the problem is not really POV here, but rather style and selectivity. >We could frame it as a POV dispute, but I don't think that the person >who wrote it really intended to slight anyone or advocate for >anything. > Agreed, but for some POV is a too convenient bazooka for shooting down other people's contributions. >I say: so what? Let's let them do it. It's not a major problem, >since it's silly not many people will care to do it. It won't be >well-linked from anywhere on the site, so almost no one will ever see >it. I'm flexible on this point, because I think that it's hard to >make blanket judgments, and that we would need a lot of case-by-case >examples before we'd have enough experience to formulate a general >rule. > I generally take this approach too. Sometimes those who want to remove these things remind me too much of a Dr. Strangelove who would go to any extent to preserve bodily humors. Ec