From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob
On 5/22/06, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
As a side-note have any of you noticed that the 9/11
Memorial Wiki has
not been deleted despite ample consensus being achieved towards its deletion? Don't you guys feel that there were far greater tragedies which occured during the 20th century-like World War 2 or the Holocaust or the Nagasaki-Hiroshima Nuclear bombing, apartheid in Africa, to name a few? Making such a big deal about the
loss of 3000
lives while fully neglecting much more horrific incidents is a shockingly clear example of how America-centric Wikipedia
has become.
I urge someone to please delete this absurd memorial which
seems (in a
way) to place the people who died on 9/11 on a much higher pedestal than (for example) the 7 million who were murdered in Nazi Germany.
Anyone can start a wiki on any subject. If you feel that the tragedy of the Holocaust, for example, is terribly underrepresented on the internet, go start a wiki on the subject. The solution is to fix the problem of underrepresentation, not to delete what is already represented.
Hear hear! All of the above are tragedies of immense proportions and should be known and understood by as many as possible. We should have MORE memorial wikis, not fewer. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington last year and it was a distressing and sobering experience. Last month I was in Hiroshima, where the scars of the attack remain beneath the cherry blossoms, and it was a poignant but beautiful moment in my life.
We should learn about these and other tragedies and say "NEVER AGAIN!"
Pete, unable to think of a tagline