Seconded. Heartily. By possibly the leftmost person on this mailing list. NPOV is about spreading and sharing information, and about
You make that assertion only because I've adopted the policy of not discussing politics. ;-)
distinguishing information from opinion. This is a Good Thing, in my own not-so-humble opinion: oppressors of any stripe want to control
information,
ideas, and knowledge.
That's it in a nutshell. I actually agree with *some* of what 24 says, but find that irrelevant to whether it belong in an encyclopedia (most of the time, it doesn't--he writes polemics, not articles). And of course, most of the time I just think he's a kook.
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Allow me to heartily third Vicki Rosenzweig and Koyaanis Qatsi, from another leftie (European view) or pinko commie bastich (US view -- just kidding, guys ;) . 24 is not so much left or right as just plain odd... the pattern seems similar to a number of Internet newsgroup kooks I've run into now and again. ("I have the One True Way, and you should all bow down in awe!") There are, as LDC says, occasional flashes of useful insight there, though rather overwhelmed in the polemicism. Perhaps the writer may yet grow out of it... and if not, the collective corrective forces of Wikipedia ough to be able to keep the diatribes in check.
-- April
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