Stevertigo wrote:
Certainly for each language there needs to be a loyalty to GNUFDL -- period. As far as other things, like saying "George Bush's Mother is a Goat" in Arabic... well,. that will have to be sorted out by the academic standards that they can reasonably set there.
If Jimbo ever finds out about this, then there'll be trouble. (In practice, it may take him awhile -- unless you are vigilant!) This violates NPOV -- even if all Arabic speakers agree! We can't blame [[ar:]] writers if they don't know this, but once a writer knows that this opinion is denied by a reasonable population of people -- such as most citizens of the country that he leads! -- then the writer is obligated to attribute the opinion rather than to state it as fact.
By Wikipedia's founding standards, NPOV is as nonnegotiabble as the FDL -- even /more/ nonnegotiable, in fact! (If a future version of the FDL allows a move to, say, Creative Commons by-sa, then Wikipedia may very well do just that. See recent discussion on <textbook-l>.)
-- Toby