I can hardly believe this hasn't already been said numerous times in the discussion, but, hey, maybe some new user is reading wikien-l and maybe this will help them.
On Jun 1, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Raphael Wegmann wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
On 6/1/06, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
I'd reckon the cartoons displayed on the Islamophobia article not to be an affront, because it would be clear, that "Wikipedia" considers the cartoons to be a sign for hatred towards Muslims.
And there, concisely, is how you're arguing that Wikipedia abandon its core principles.
Which one?
WP:NPOV. Specifically, (paraphrase) "Wikipedia does not *consider* anything to be anything. Wikipedia reports that other people consider things to be other things, and tries to take as few positions as possible."
Jesse Weinstein