[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

Regardless of what you call it, the discussion has been held many
times. There simply isn't anything near consensus for any sort of
censorship in the community (and it is censorship, don't kid yourself,
just read the first sentance in [[Censorship]]). The discussion has
been had, lets just levae it at that.

And frankly, while I agree that some sort of voluntary content control
might be nice, I sorta like the idea that wikipedia will give you the
facts straight up, without any spin, no matter how ugly or morally
reprehensive they may be. Our responsibility is not to make a school
safe version of the facts, our responsibility is to always give the
facts with a neutral point of view. If some schools and libraries
can't agree with that point of view, that's too bad.

On 3/27/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
>
> > Look we've been sown this path many times before, and it's never
> > gotten us anywhere, infact, all it's done is make people fight and
> > occasionally force good contributors out because of the hostile mood
> > of the discussion (Wikipedians for decency/encyclopedic merit and
> > WP:TOBY for instance). The fact is, far too many wikipedians think
> > that this kind of censorship is wrong, so you'll NEVER get consensus
> > on it. This is a discussion that should be killed before it has any
> > chance to do more harm.
>
> This has nothing to do with censoring Wikipedia. This is about
> tagging content so schools (for instance) and filtering software used
> by schools can discriminate between Wikipedia articles. Or would you
> rather Wikipedia be inaccessible in schools and libraries?
>
> --
> Philip L. Welch
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch
>
>
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