On 14 June 2012 18:01, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 June 2012 17:22, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Shocking images in [[Nanking Massacre]] are pretty much expected. [[People's Republic of China–Japan relations]] not so much. [[Agent orange]] is a more boarderline case but these things are never easy as [[Wikipedia:LAME#Names]] shows.
Yes, but this is called editorial judgement rather than something that can be imposed by filtering. (Although the board and staff claim that
This falls into the trap of presuming there is one approach of "editorial judgement of acceptability" that is common to all readers, *and* that it's the same as the editorial judgement currently provided by our community of editors.
I'm not confident that a) is a reliable assumption - neutrality is a matter of presenting all sides, and so we can achieve it, while this sort of editorial judgement is basically binary and so much harder to equivocate. Even if it is, b) certainly has problems - while our community strives to be neutral, I doubt anyone would claim it does not start off with fairly heavy biases, from demography as much as anything else.
Least surprise is one way to try and get around this problem of not relying on the community's own judgement in all edge cases; I'm not sure it's the best one, but I'm not sure leaving it out is any better.