Wikipedia is not Britannica, and is also different from Encyclopedia Americana, the big one-volume Columbia Encyclopedia or any of Microsoft's attempts.
NPOV is one thing that distinguishes us. There's less of a whitewash on Communism in Wikipedia than in Britannica.
There's also a lot more about X-rated and XXX-rated sexual practices here.
I don't know if this requires a warning label -- at least not until we start shipping the CD-ROM version.
I think Larry's sifter idea, backed by Magnus's software, will make the warning-label question moot.
Ed Poor
NPOV is one thing that distinguishes us. There's less of a whitewash on Communism in Wikipedia than in Britannica.
And lots of propaganda, too. [[Gulag]] is hardly NPOV, for example.
There's also a lot more about X-rated and XXX-rated sexual practices here.
Now even sexual practices are X-rated in America? Do women have to wear warning labels? In that case America definitely gets a double cross rating from me. Well on the way to a full blown theocracy.
I don't know if this requires a warning label -- at least not until we start shipping the CD-ROM version.
You can stick whatever you want on the US CD-ROM. ;-)
Wikipedia doesn't need any warning labels. What it does need is a decision making process.
Regards,
Erik
|From: erik_moeller@gmx.de (Erik Moeller) |Date: 15 Nov 2002 01:16:00 +0100 | |> NPOV is one thing that distinguishes us. There's less of a whitewash on |> Communism in Wikipedia than in Britannica. | |And lots of propaganda, too. [[Gulag]] is hardly NPOV, for example. |
Let's have some additions from you about the bright positive side of the Gulag. Which part of slave labor by political prisoners do you like best?
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
Let's have some additions from you about the bright positive side of the Gulag. Which part of slave labor by political prisoners do you like best?
How very witty. The Gulag article is not NPOV because it doesn't present the different estimates of the number of people who were killed by the Gulag system. "40 million people have been killed by this system" is hardly a generally acknowledged fact.
Regards,
Erik
Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de writes:
How very witty. The Gulag article is not NPOV because it doesn't present the different estimates of the number of people who were killed by the Gulag system. "40 million people have been killed by this system" is hardly a generally acknowledged fact.
So, erm, why not add the others?
How very witty. The Gulag article is not NPOV because it doesn't present
the
different estimates of the number of people who were killed by the Gulag system. "40 million people have been killed by this system" is hardly a generally acknowledged fact.
So, erm, why not add the others?
Because a complex subject like [[Gulag]], with so much propaganda from both sides, requires intensive non-web research. Optimally, there would be a table with the different estimates and the attribution to the different sources, followed by discussion of their methodology. A detailed comparison with the Nazi concentration camps would also be necessary. I'm more than busy enough with Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria, although I may try to improve the current version somewhat.
Regards,
Erik
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