On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
However, I will say this in addition:
To allow wikipedia to be accessible, I
thus will delete any article which directly
contradicts the first and the second article of the
universal declaration of the humans right:
There is a great irony here. It is suggested that we should delete
any article that contradicts the first and the second article of the
universal declaration of human rights, because of a French law that is
itself a strong violation of article 19 of that same document!
Also, what would it mean to 'contradict' those articles? The way I read
them, they DON'T say that all people are equal, they say that they should
be treated equal by the law, and have equal rights. As far as I can see,
what these articles attempt to do is to forbid _laws_ that make a difference
between people (article 2 is even further restricted, and only talks about
those rights that are granted by the declaration itself). Wikipedia, being
neither law-creating nor law-enforcing in nature, seems to be unaffected by
such an article, as far as I can see.
Andre Engels