[WikiEN-l] Re: Mother Teresa article

[Ray Saintonge]

Andre Engels wrote:

>"Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> schrieb:
>
>>Louis Kyu Won Ryu wrote:
>>
>>>Root causes of the "current upset" have everything to do with Wikipedia 
>>>policies and customs, in particular, the absence of some sort of means 
>>>for dealing with article disputes that cannot be solved within the Wiki 
>>>consensus editing model.
>>>
>>Is there any evidence that this is the case in the current
>>controversy?  What I mean is that the article already seems much
>>improved over the past several weeks.  So in what way is it really
>>true that the problem can't be solved within the Wiki consensus
>>editing model?
>>
>
>It is not working in that the consensus editing model can make POV
>lines and paragraphs NPOV, can correct factual errors and so forth,
>but the issue with the page is that a number of people (me included)
>are of the opinion that large amount of texts should be either
>removed from the page or severely shortened, and others (in
>particular Ec) will never get in consensus with such a change.
>
Huh??  I've not been involved with the article.  I agree that it can be 
trimmed down.  Much of what is said about Keating should be removed as 
irrelevant.  You must be thinking of someone else.

Ec