On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:29:23 -0400, "Death Phoenix" originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales,please estabish the board of inspectors to investigate admins.
On 9/12/06, Jacky PB dpotop1@yahoo.com wrote:
please realise that Wikipedia is not an exercise in democracy, it is an encyclopedia.
What? At least Wikipedians in advanced democratic countries should respect democracy, following the democratic spirits of Jimmy Wales, Arbcom polls, and so on. Reasonable or Unreasonable is the question. Comfortable or Uncomfortable is the question. Harmless or Harmful is the questions.
Non-democratic, yes,
I hope that realy democratic votes, not pretended votes would be held anywhere in Wiki-Project. I admit democracy can lead to fascism (e.g. Italian fascism, Deutche fascism "Nazism", Japanese fascism that were observed in 1933-1945, ,,,and recently Bush's fascism, Wikiopedia's admins' fascism) , but I can't think, "Non-democratic, yes". I say loudly, "Non-democratic, never!", because non-democratic administration, including Wikipedia's admins' fascism, never please anyone except the people ruled by ideologies (e.g. communism, anti-Jews hate, anti-Japanese hate, anti-Muslim hate, etc.)
but not really an encyclopedia. I cite from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
encyclopedia: a work that contains information on
all
branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject
The "comprehensive" part is not covered by wikipedia, which gives much emphasis to certain particular cases, as opposed to presenting a discipline in an integrated way. This is my POV, and I've seen it in many other people, too.
Perhaps, but I think this level of detail wasn't necessary in my reply to Peter. ;-)
Extremely useful, nonetheless.
Dpotop
ps: As for the dispute resolution process, it doesn't really work...
Well, Peter's proposal seemed superfluous with the existence of Arbcom.
Cheers,
DP
Good point of view! At first, Arbcom must be reorganized to the borad of inspectors independent from all admins. If not, anyone, including admins, cannot respect it and its saying.
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