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-