--- koyaanis qatsi <obchodnakorze@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Two points: one purely logical, the other political.
>
>1) the logical:
>
>Our goal is, and let me reiterate this for those of
>you who have forgotten, to make a complete, factual,
>NPOV encyclopedia.  The only viable, though tedious
>and laborious, option in implementing filters on
>wikipedia would be to cite who believes what about
>which article--e.g. "George W. Bush believes this
>article was written by an anti-capitalist scumbag."
>"Osama bin Laden says Allah will strike down the
>infidel who gave voice to these words." "Robert
>Mapplethorpe says this article is less explicit than
>the dreams he had when he was 12."  Otherwise, when
>we
>decide what is "explicit" or "controversial," we
>will
>be labeling the articles with a POV.  It may be a
>common POV, or an uncommon POV, but it will be a
>POV.
>It will, furthermore, be the "official" wikipedia
>POV.
> Wikipedia is not supposed to voice a POV.  Voicing
>a
>POV = bad.  Contrary to mission.  Not voicing a POV
>=
>good.  In keeping with mission.
>
>Wikipedia is not your mother, or your thoughtful
>well-intentioned son.  It is an encyclopedia.  In
>keeping with the general purpose of encyclopedias,
>it
>presents information.  Some of you will not like
>information.  Those of you who do not like
>information
>will be at the wrong site.  Don't complain to
>Firestone because they sell tires and not pizza.
>
>2) the political:
>
>And, since you've brought the children into it when
>they're not relevant, let me bring *you* into it
>when
>you are:  There are people throughout the world
>dying
>of starvation, some of them so desperate for food
>that
>they look through feces for undigested kernels of
>corn.  Already I hear you saying "Whoa!  Hey!  the
>details of your miserable life are too 'explicit'
>for
>me and my 200-pound 8 year-old son, driving down the
>street in an SUV eating a McRibs Deluxe."  I say to
>you, you are the posterchilds for miseducation, for
>fear, for censorship and everything wikipedia
>doesn't
>stand for:  you've so come to love the weight of
>your
>own ignorance, that yoke on your shoulders, that you
>miss its caress when it's gone.  Go in peace, but
>please do go.
>
>kq