[WikiEN-l] Wiki entropy

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 20:04:43 UTC 2006


On 8/25/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, because people who revert war out citations in violation of NPOV
> > on their pet subjects[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_anti-Semitism&diff=71602684&oldid=71601636]
> > are exactly the sort of people we want on an editoral board. :-/
>
> Greg, that isn't fair. That was done within a context of a very
> difficult editing situation on that page, with troublemakers turning
> up to cause all kinds of problems. We've got a couple of them on the
> page at the moment actually trying to change quotations.
>
> I intend to wait until the page has quietened down and then I'm going
> to write a caption that fully reflects the debate and what the sources
> say, but there's just no point at the moment.

I owe you my apology then, it didn't occur to me that you were
avoiding making the improvement at the moment because of the current
controversy there. I'm sorry for concluding otherwise.



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