On 21 Jul 2008 at 13:48:17, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I'll put something up in the arbcom case later, but let me posit this
- "the center" should look at everyone involved (at least as far out
as me on "my side", probably as far out as Larry and Allison, probably as far out as Dan Tobias, Viridae, and certainly everyone more involved than we are). Determine whether the factions have become sufficiently hostile to Wikipedia's community and goals that this needs to end now, and take forceful action to end this.
I'm far out, you say? Far out, man!
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!" -- Barry Goldwater, in a speech written by Karl Hess, who later became the Libertarian Party News editor
2008/7/22 Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name:
On 21 Jul 2008 at 13:48:17, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I'll put something up in the arbcom case later, but let me posit this
- "the center" should look at everyone involved (at least as far out
as me on "my side", probably as far out as Larry and Allison, probably as far out as Dan Tobias, Viridae, and certainly everyone more involved than we are). Determine whether the factions have become sufficiently hostile to Wikipedia's community and goals that this needs to end now, and take forceful action to end this.
I'm far out, you say? Far out, man!
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!" -- Barry Goldwater, in a speech written by Karl Hess, who later became the Libertarian Party News editor
I don't think that there is or should be any center other than verifiability.
Adding extremisms to the wikipedia is fine. It's when you take other people's extremisms out that the problems start.
However, there are *some* community standards: extreme spam, advertising, or trivia- that's just going *too* far. ;-)
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