Well, yes. (Who thankfully are not gross incompetents at the actual management to the degree he was.) And it turns out that remaining politically neutral is one of the best things we can do as well as the cheapest and easiest, because we have the moral high ground and we're not going away. And as economics shifts to information, we have credibility to the skies. "Information wants to be free" means "it leaks like a gas" and "running a Great Firewall is like trying to carry air in a bucket".

Abandoning neutrality as a general operating principle (manifested as NPOV on Wikipedia, variants on other projects where that doesn't make direct sense) would be a disaster. Possibly a greater one than putting ads on the site (and I wouldn't object to ads on the site, but I realise enough people despise them that it'd be utterly unworkable).

Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality?

[We will leave for the moment post-modernist arguments about the impossibility of neutrality, or the quite accurate argument that running an Enlightenment-style encyclopedia project is itself pushing a huge and detailed point of view in all sorts of ways. You know what I mean by the question.]

Oh, and Merry Christmas. That's CHRISTMAS, as detailed in the King James Version! [* may not be 100% verifiable or not original research]

- d.

Hey Kurt, I didn't bother putting that troll sockpuppet of you under copyleft license because of your retirement. As a present for the free world, maybe I'll do that for Christmas.

"I'll get you my pretty, and your little sockpuppet too." - The Wiki Witch of the West.

- Durova