On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/4/9 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jaska Zedlik
<jz53zc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So, does an all-Wikipedias rules list exist,
or if not, what are
> there
> global rules which all the Wikipedias must follow?
No.
NPOV. Wikipedias which refuse it have been shut down.
The question was about a list which should exist somewhere (at Meta).
BTW, probably I missed that some Wikipedia was shut down because of
violating NPOV. Which Wikipedias were shut down because of NPOV
violation?
As well as I know for many community supported NPOV violations through
various Wikipedias. As I don't want to point to the projects, here is
the list of possible excuses for NPOV violation:
* Something is ugly.
* Something is not according to some moral norms.
* Too many references (~20 references for two pages text; page deleted).
* Various ethnicist and nationalist reasons with well or not so well
rationalizations.
Note that I am not talking about some edit war, but about a dominant
opinion of not so small number of communities. And those are just
dominant and generic excuses. A lot of others are well rationalized
excuses used by many communities and defined (or not) inside of the
policies. Sometimes the policy is a problem, but in much more cases
systematic policy interpretation is a problem.
There will always be a residual area of failure to live up to ideals. The
English Wikipedia has all of the problems you list, although perhaps in
subtler forms. Those shortcomings are the source of continual discussion
and, occasionally, serious conflict. It is up to those who edit in each
language to work on resolution of these perennial problems. Only gross
failure, or deliberate forking, would result in repudiation of a
Wikipedia.
Fred Bauder