[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Of course we do risk 'flagging wars' -- but that's par for the course
> -- we risk 'edit wars' and so on all the time.  The best way to
> minimize such wars is to approach tagging *as NPOV meta-data*.

But one of the main tools we use to come to NPOV -- 'going meta' --
isn't really available here.


> If we were writing disclaimers at the top of some pages, we would
> require the disclaimer to be NPOV.  We wouldn't say "This page is bad
> for children."  And we wouldn't say "Anyone who doesn't let children
> read this is a stick in the mud."  We would say "Some may consider
> this page inappropriate for children."

'Going meta' isn't just saying 'some people think this', it's
describing who thinks it. If we have to decide how many people should
hold an opinion before a flag is set then I think we really will get
'wars' of back-and-forth reversions.

-M-