Anthere wrote:
I do not think this desire for overall balanced
information should be
confused with censorship. My goal for most projects is that they are
complete for all topics, not only focusing on controversial topics.
But if such a desire to wish for overall neutrality is only seen as
academic discussion and nothing more, it is not really worth
discussing imho.
I certainly agree with this, but there's two ways of going about
balance: the first is writing more about things that are missing, and
the second is removing things that are seem as "unbalanced". The first
I have no problem with (and I don't think anyone has a real problem with
them, so long as they're neutral and accurate), but the second is what
I'm worried about. If someone wants to write an article about something
"negative" in the zh: Wikipedia, I don't see how we can reasonably tell
them not to do so, as long as their article is factual and written from
a NPOV. It would be an odd situation if a Chinese-American could only
write about some things in the en: Wikipedia and wasn't able to write
the exact same things in the zh: Wikipedia.
-Mark