[WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

[Jimmy Wales]

Fred Bauder wrote:
> I think the fundamental problem is that several parties to this
> controversy essentially want an article written from a sympathetic
> point of view. I suggest that they should have that freedom on
> Wikipedia with critical views in a seperate article perhaps
> entitled, China: A crititical view.

I think this is a very bad idea _for wikipedia_.  I think the idea of
a website with critical essays written in wiki-fashion is an
interesting one, but it isn't right for us.

> The problem are not limited to this
> particular question but extend to deletion of mention of the democracy
> movement and of Tiananmen protests.

Who deleted those things?  I would say that no article on China
could be NPOV without discussing those things.

--Jimbo