On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:15:50 +0100 "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Wasn't there recently a ruling that people who invoke WP:NOR or WP:NPOV to talk pages, user pages, or mailing lists, get crucified?
Please prove you're not an idiot before the end of today.
You're basically asking the impossible - the negation of an universal negative? (Proving you an idiot?)
But then again you ask for "evidence" - always a good habit. What I said was what I interpreted from once idly skipping through the archives of this very mailing list (with the goal of getting to know the people, especially Jimbo)
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ <- there you go
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027842.htmlgo <- there, a particular example of what I am talking about. But there's probably better material that I'm not finding right now
What I remember was that, to my surprise, Jimbo appeared to be rather nervous regarding certain threats of neo-nazi-sites (namely stormfront) to insert their point of view, and announced that he would not let this happen to some degree - for which he, I remember, has then been criticised by other members of the list: NPOV and the regular process should (and would, imho) have proven sufficient without resorting to outright censorship.
I also remember reading somewhere a presentation that, IIRC, WP:RS was at least partly modified or instated in reaction to this "threat." Or first instated as a reaction, then again modified to specifically include stormfront as an example for invalid / unreliable sources. However that is the presentation of a site that I remember as being rather Wikipedia-critic, (not a nazi site mind you) I don't remember which one though. Memories are blurry ;)