I think it would be good for wikipedia if we adopted the six color hat system. A critical/pessimistic view is black hat, and there are other hats for emotional/gut feeling, creative, optomistic, but I forget the rest. The article could be entitled China/black hat or China (black hat). This flies in the face of NPOV, but if we explicitly explained that this was from a critical point of view, it could work. Encyclopedias tend to be very POV. My school World Book encyclopedia is highly McCarthyist and Eurocentric.
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
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.
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