[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day (Johntex) (charles matthews) (Johntex)

[John Tex]

Charles Mathews wrote:
>I would call it a complete change from five years of getting the
>encyclopedia written.  It bears repetition: the mission is to get the
>encyclopedia written, the free NPOV encyclopedia.  Not to try to gather
>plaudits from classroom teachers.  It's an old discussion here: GFDL
>means_someone else_ can perfectly well make the fork that is more
child-safe.

I disagree that the goal is to get an encyclopedia written.  The goal is to
produce an encyclopedia that is as useful as possible to the biggest set of
people possible.  Taking small steps to make the reference more usable in
schools and work-places is consistent with that goal.

Deciding which images might deserve a spoiler warning is no more a violation
of NPOV than deciding what fact is important enough to include, or deciding
what reference is worthy enough to cite.  All of these are judgement calls.
We will continue to debate them for as long as the project is editable, no
doubt.

- Johntex