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Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Tue Mar 23 03:24:37 UTC 2004
You've made my point. Thank you! :-)
Ec
Rick wrote:
> Leave it to you to start making personal attacks.
>
>
>
> RickK
>
> Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> >Rick wrote:
> >
> >>My concern was not with some place that claims to have invented the
> >>hamburger: it was just that the original poster was adding
> >>off-the-cuff pizza places that, at least as far as was indicated in
> >>the article, had no particular significance except possibly to the
> >>poster. To me, this is POV: "These are the places you should eat at,
> >>not any others."
> >>
> >Possibly it's POV, but I don't read it exactly that way. I'd say that
> >the problem is not really POV here, but rather style and selectivity.
> >We could frame it as a POV dispute, but I don't think that the person
> >who wrote it really intended to slight anyone or advocate for
> >anything.
> >
> Agreed, but for some POV is a too convenient bazooka for shooting
> down
> other people's contributions.
>
>
> >I say: so what? Let's let them do it. It's not a major problem,
> >since it's silly not many people will care to do it. It won't be
> >well-linked from anywhere on the site, so almost no one will ever see
> >it. I'm flexible on this point, because I think that it's hard to
> >make blanket judgments, and that we would need a lot of case-by-case
> >examples before we'd have enough experience to formulate a general
> >rule.
> >
> I generally take this approach too. Sometimes those who want to
> remove
> these things remind me too much of a Dr. Strangelove who would go
> to any
> extent to preserve bodily humors.
>
> Ec
>
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