Mr Paul Vogel wrote:
Indeed. Do NOT throw out the good with the bad, as I do actually suspect has really happened here and as
often
as NOT, David.
"My personal feeling about Wikipedia is that sometimes it is necessary to "throw out the good with the bad." The "good", in this instance, I see as the contribution of alternative points of view that when appropriately presented bring our encyclopedia closer to NPOV."
So Michael feels that "sometimes it is necessary to" throw out maintaining the NPOV with alternative pov's?
When it does "suit" his or his ilk's own POV?????
"The "bad", in contrast, is having someone direct numerous offensive statements at other Wikipedians."
Michael Snow doesn't seem to think it "bad" when either he and his "ilk" direct numerous and FALSE offensive statements at other Wikipedians, though, does he? That is a "double-standard" that other Wikipedians might not appreciate, as I most certainly do NOT!
"I am not going to weigh the good and bad brought to Wikipedia by Mr. Paul Vogel. That is for the arbitration committee to do."
Indeed, and I will review with the same arbitration committee the good and bad brought to Wikipedia by NOT walking the TALK of maintaining the Wiki NPOV and of NOT enforcing Wiki Policies fairly and without such pov DOUBLE-STANDARDS, Michael.
"But there is no reason to be ashamed of throwing out the good with the bad, if the bad is more than we can tolerate."
When you in your pov can't tolerate the NPOV, that is? There is plenty to be "ashamed of" and if you or your own "ilk" or "group" just can't maintain any Wiki NPOV here and if one can't they should be the ones to actually "leave", or be blocked, banned, or censored from this Wiki Encyclopedia Project.
"There are other sources of the same good (with the double meaning of "good" as in commodity), and we can get it without having to poison our community."
The NPOV is NOT any commodity, anymore than the TRUTH is a commodity.
How does maintaining the NPOV ever "poison" any "community", unless of course, your idea of "community" is based only and solely upon falsehood, upon lying hypocrisy, upon pov bigotry, and upon pov censorship of any alternative and therefore NPOV's?
Paul Vogel http://www.cosmotheism.net
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