oops, meant to send to list as well
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 29-Aug-2006 20:44 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WP:LIVING and "sensitivity" again To: Sydney aka FloNight poore5@adelphia.net
On 29/08/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I note that one of the talk page responses is that a "sensitivity" policy would reduce editor arguments. So would Sympathetic Point Of View and article forks, and that isn't a reason either. Perhaps I'm worrying about nothing. But it really sits wrong having that there.
I should point out also: that although the big fuss is about negative articles being libelous, the serious *quality* problem with our pop culture articles is that they are hagiographies. The fans are the main people interested in those articles, and they guard them jealously. This makes our pop culture articles *really bad*. Neil Gaiman commented at length about this in his (widely read) blog, for example. Our pop culture articles are rubbish, and they definitely need no more encouragement toward a hagiographic point of view.
- d.