-----Original Message----- From: David Goodman [mailto:dgoodmanny@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 02:00 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
So it seems that the problem after all is the basic idea, "that anyone can edit". We have people who can be trusted to write extremely good fair articles on many topics, but we can't count on their being the ones to write the article.
We are then saying that there are some topics not appropriate for an open wiki, and that WP can not aspire to be a universal encyclopedia because we cannot really count on maintaining a neutral point of view.
I think this is what some of Fred's messages amount to: the editorial and review procedures at WP cannot be trusted, so there must also be some top-down control, namely by him (and Jimbo, who joined this discussion to endorse his views)
DGG David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
I don't think Jimbo endorsed my views, but I think we probably agree that when things go wrong responsible editors should try to fix them. That could include you, or not.
Fred
I don't like riding a train, rather ramble...