|From: "Michael R. Irwin" mri_icboise@surfbest.net |Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:38:19 -0700 | | | |Jens Frank wrote: |> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:27:56AM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote: |> > On Monday 26 August 2002 12:20 pm, The Cunctator wrote: |> stick to one consistent user interface for everything. | |Perhaps we should attempt to use meta to consolidate lengthy or |persistent threads or topics. | |We may need to learn some standard patterns for laying |controversial topics in ways that present the top level |consensus overviews and mainstream information while |preserving the radical fringes ability to evolve their |views anyway. | |regards, |Mike Irwin
I wrote up a brief and sensible outline for presenting controversial topics a few weeks back, to precisely no reaction.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AList_of_controversial_issues
It probably wouldn't help with Helga, but even there . . . maybe and it would certainly work with more organized opponents.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88