On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/9 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jaska Zedlik jz53zc@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.