[WikiEN-l] Re: Reliable, selectable content

Rick giantsrick13 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 7 18:07:49 UTC 2005


--- Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a feeling that the ICRA vocabulary may be
> copyrighted by ICRA, so 
> we would not be able to use it without their
> permission. However, if a 
> similar label scheme were to be adopted, it must be
> copyright free, 
> non-subjective, and capable of being used in an NPOV
> manner without 
> endless labelling and re-labelling revert wars. 
> Even the ICRA labels 
> (which represent a good attempt at a reasoned
> scheme) still have some 
> subjective aspects to them.
> 
> -- Neil

How can anything labeled "offensive" be NPOV?  We have
seen in the recent war that many, many people
considered the autofellatio image offensive, while
many, many others considered it non-offensive.

RickK



		
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