On Monday 11 November 2002 09:39 pm, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
Just because you are a Linux user, or happen to be gay, or a vegetarian doesn't mean that you have the requisite knowledge to write NPOV articles on these subjects. These pages are therefore only of peripheral interest and should be moved to a POV-friendly forum.
Well, if you want to look at it that way, just because you are a Canadian or a Russian or a Scot doesn't mean you have the requisite knowledge to write NPOV articles on that subject. So I suppose we should move the geography ones too.
Matt
Yep - all these categories are at best only of peripheral interest and at worst highly POV and hurtful.
Moving all these pages will take some time though....
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)