[WikiEN-l] Worrying trends

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>Poor, Edmund W (Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com) [050721 23:56]:
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>>A lot of problems Wikipedia has comes down to:
>>* "I want the web site to reflect my own ideas, feelings and desires."
>>This comes into endless conflict with our stated mission of creating an
>>unbiased yet comprehensive free encyclopedia. Nonetheless, we've done an
>>outstanding job. We've got the world's attention, but we need to figure
>>out how to take it to the next level.
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>We're having fun with this on [[WP:SCN]] (a Scientology wikiproject). You
>have the views of the CoS members and the views of the critics, and they're
>basically almost utterly incompatible. But NPOV is achievable! With great
>effort! (Also, we have a recently ex-member who's doing a great job on the
>articles about the "tech", i.e. the substance of the religion itself.)
>[[Xenu]] is achieving widespread fame in the blogosphere, and is being
>quoted (uncredited) in just about every recent press article on Tom
>Cruise's proselytisation for the Church. So we're getting just a little
>attention. I'm sure we'll weather it, and Wikipedia's immune systems appear
>to be kicking in just fine in at least one case ...
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In other words, achieving consensus is hard work.  Calling for a poll on 
some of these question can blow any possibility of consensus.

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