Christopher Mahan wrote
If the W has a social goal to make the world a better
place, it is
solely through the exposition of facts.
Well, no, that's not really decided. A successful wiki is a community with
an appropriate technology attached (and not the other way round). The
policy comes from the community end. In time the policy approved of by most
users might not be that. Of course, it might be problematic, and
detrimental to what WP has done well. (Example: giving medical advice
rather than presenting facts about medecine.) But it is too sweeping to
assume _no_ advice or ethical component, ever.
Charles