On 3/29/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Earlier you wrote "Yes, I am leaping to the conclusion that making Wikipedia an attractive resource for teachers for use with kids is an improvement."
Yeah, I still don't get where plaudits come into anything.
Ok, so someone else could fork us and produce a meta-stable "clean" version. Wait, doesn't answers.com do that already?
No comment.
However, "offensive" is most definately a subjective term - the term "bugger" can be offensive in certain contexts, as can the infamous phrase "so where the bloody hell are you"...
It's probably not so much the context as the hearer/reader that matters. And notice that my example was objective: "naked breasts". Yours is subjective: "offensive". Kind of logical that a subjective term is hard to apply objectively.
So, you're willing to tag *all* articles based on their content?
Are you then willing to tag the list of tags?
I don't really understand your objection here. It's like me saying "we should fix spelling errors" and you saying "are you personally willing to fix every spelling error in every article?"
"Warning: this set of articles have been identified of being of a biologically accurate/theologically dubious/unscientific nature"? (sex, evolution, and creation respectively)
I feel mocked. Ah well.
Really? So, if they're "invisible to most users", what's the point of having them? Why not just leave them out altogether?
Presumably you would make the same argument for removing braille markings from food products in supermarkets.
Braille on food products is expected by people with impaired vision. Who is going to which readers do and don't see the warnings? Please stop trying to build strawmen...
Braille is "invisible" to most sighted people, because it's not useful to them, and they simply aren't aware of its existence. Of course, a blind person is very much aware. The same would go for content tags. I imagine that certain software can find content tags in <META> html tags, or even <!-- HTML comments-->. The average user would be blissfully unaware. Anyone with appropriate software would still be able to make use of them.
Work with me here, eh?
Steve