On 16/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/15/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Somebody mentioned Wikinfo, which IIRC splits its articles according different general points of view. That's at least workable and in extreme cases might resemble our /draft method, but ultimately the goal is integration according to NPOV.
I think the quality of two separate articles written by anti-circumcisionists and pro-circumcisionists would be a hell of a lot worse than a single article fought over by both groups. At least we force them to engage with each other and find a tiny bit of common ground.
In that particular case, I also like what actually happened: activists put out calls to action on mailing lists to push a POV, and ... a lot of the people came to Wikipedia, liked what they saw and started contributing with a view to NPOV. Informed by their POV, but not under its spell.
The perennial proposals to run article forks seem to me to embrace pathological behaviour. Most articles really aren't problematic.
- d.