Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@gmail.com) [050331 07:10]:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:23:32 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Is every editorial disagreement a test of "moral rightness"? I really don't see it that way. Maybe the communication difficulty we are having surrounds your use of that phrase?
No, it's only a test of moral rightness if that is the basis behind an editors decisions.. We can't always tell from the outside, but we can ask. If there is no justification from the large set that we consider valid reasons for changes to the article that can be discussed, then we must assume that the reasoning is based on good/evil judgements.
Indeed. I really, really doubt that all the people claiming the autofellatio pic MUST be a copyright violation therefore MUST be deleted NOW would get away with that level of copyright paranoia about *anything* else on Wikipedia, and oddly enough I suspect them of other motivations. Particularly since, as I understand it, despite much searching no-one has actually found anything it's actually a copy of.
- d.