[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

[David Alexander Russell]

The facts WOULD NOT BE CHANGED - all it would do is say to a user  'OK, 
this page contains this type of content, do you still want to look at it?'

Cynical

Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> 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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