[Foundation-l] Censorship: Speedy deletion of porn articles
geni
geniice at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 22:53:06 UTC 2007
On 3/8/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> How is putting labels on people to create external bias NPOV? Here is
> one area where our culture
> and the english wikipedia culture differ. We do not ever put labels on
> people this way. Someone's
> personal sexual behavior is private, and certainly not an open topic in
> an encyclopedia.
>
How were you planning to write about say [[Peter Tatchell]]? or pretty
much anyone listed on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_rights_activists
> Yes, it can be. What is NPOV to you may not be to me (as evidenced by my
> previous comment).
That isn't how NPOV works. NPOV is meant to be an objective standard.
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geni
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