[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Gordon Joly]

At 12:00 +0200 11/4/06, Steve Bennett wrote:
>On 4/11/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On 4/11/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Yes, this IS english-speaker-centric, but the very fact of writing an
>>  > encylopedia in English is already deciding to do that.
>>
>>  Thank you.  This is a beautiful way of expressing something I've been
>>  thinking about for some while.
>
>Can you elaborate? Perhaps we should decide if we really want this
>bias, or not? [[WP:CSB]] thinks we don't.
>
>Question: To use Jimbo's well-worn poor African once again, what does
>he expect? Georgia the country, or Georgia the state? Does he care
>that most Wikipedians are American, British, Canadian, etc? Should he
>just grateful for whatever information he can get, regardless of whose
>biases, interests and prejudices it reflects? Should he not be
>concerned if, when he looks up Zaire, he comes up with a suburb in
>Arizona?
>
>I did not raise this issue to bash Americans. Nor would I have a
>complaint if a state in the US were disambig'ed with a terristory in
>Pakistan. But for a mere state in the US to be considered somehow
>"equal" in importance, interest, searchability as a *country* just
>seems wrong. I'm really having trouble putting into words exactly why
>I feel that way, so I'll leave it for a bit and come back to it.
>
>[[WP:CSB]] really is worth a read.
>
>Steve


And also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_%28disambiguation%29

:-)

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