[WikiEN-l] CITE nazis

Death Phoenix originaldeathphoenix at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 12:05:06 UTC 2006


What you describe is a POV fork. I believe this introduces another problem
into the equation.

On 8/15/06, Dabljuh <dabljuh at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
> stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> stevertigo, I am *very* with the problem you
> are describing. I don't think WP:CITE itself
> is the cause of the problem. WP:OWN is.
> The cause of the problem is Article Squatters.
>
> I suggest to completely change the meaning
> of WP:OWN.
>
> The Remedy I suggest is to have multiple versions
> of an article about the same topic, written each
> by different sets of people. In the way that
> NPOV on a controversial subject cannot be achieved
> in a single article, but only by using multiple
> articles that are each WP:OWNed by different sets
> of people.
>
> So, say you're writing about, uh, bunnies, and
> MisterX joins in and you quickly figure out that
> you cannot work together, then instead of sinking
> into this HELLHOLE of edit warring, you'd each get
> [[bunnies_(by_stevertigo)]] and [[bunnies_(by_misterX)]]
>
> and [[bunnies]] itself being no more than a disambiguation
> page.
>
> Alternative, turn wikipedia into a metawikipedia that
> just contains links to other free online encyclopedia's
> entries. Its about the same thing, just the branding
> is different.
>
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