On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM, quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote:
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As has been said before: Most of these types of conflicts can be boiled down to [[m:Immediatism]] vs [[m:Eventualism]]. (imho) Immediatism is great for BLPs, and CurrentEvents, and dealing with unambiguous problems; but Eventualism is one of the core reasons behind Wikipedia's successes, a fact that is sometimes insufficiently recognized.
Thanks, Quiddity! That was an excellent summary, and I hope some of the people posting here take the time to go and read those discussions (I remember some of those!). Those discussions do illustrate the philosophical differences here.
Carcharoth