I assume David intended to provide an opportune illustration of the typical ways in which prejudice defeats NPOV: the ordinarily reliable sources are not reliable in this particular instance, or the coverage is not substantial. Such views from our friends would lead to the destruction of the encyclopedia more than anything which our declared enemies could say.
On 12/21/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/12/2007, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
When the press talks about us, they do so because the things here are not important. When they talk about people who work here, they're doing so because nobody cares to know about them. NPOV, N, and RS for V don't apply to us, because nothing about us can be verified, nothing written about us by the press can be reliable, we know we're never going to be notable, and NPOV means we need to protect ourselves against visibility.
The above was clearly written without reference to the actual observed behaviour, i.e. every media fart and puff involving Wikipedia getting noted in Wikipedia.
- d.
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