[Foundation-l] Boycott in ace at wiki

[Andre Engels]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 17:58, Excirial <wp.excirial at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If a culture sees these images as highly offensive, and if the main
>> complement of editors / readers agrees with this i wouldn't object to such a
>> rule, as long as it remained in their local Wiki, with no attempts to force
>> it on other wikipedia's. Every culture has its own inherent bias towards
>> certain topics, and i don't believe that we should try to enforce a certain
>> "Morale" on other people - in other words, country specific Wikipedia's
>> should be granted some lenience in setting their own rules.
>
>
> No, that's completely incorrect. Wikipedias are per language, not per
> country, and no country owns the wiki in its language. Neutral point
> of view is not local point of view.

So? Is every single rule on Wikipedia completely determined by NPOV?
If not, then there apparently is some leeway, some possibility of
having different rules. And if that is the case, then isn't the
Wikipedia thing to do to have those be decided by the local community?


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com