Philip Welch wrote:
On May 22, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Peter Mackay wrote:
So
you're willing to have Islamists, white supremacists, etc. openly
editing Wikipedia as long as they attempt to follow NPOV? I don't. I
think the presence of such individuals is harmful to the community.
That's a
very POV statement in itself.
The presence of holders of minority (and majority) viewpoints on WP is
welcome. So long as they don't attempt to impose their views above all
others, and they are civil to other editors.
That's a reasonable thing to say about communists,
We have people who spent the entire Cold War thinking that communists
were going to to nuke them.
anarchists, radical feminists,
We have single fathers.
furries, polyamorous transsexuals,
anarcho-capitalists, or almost any
fringe group.
We have people who hate them too.
The difference with anti-Semites is that we have
Jewish editors.
Your POV is showing...
If there were people on Wikipedia who happened to be
white
supremacists or Islamists and you had no way to tell they were either
of these things from their edits, that would be one thing. If you
make your anti-semitism known, however, I don't see why you should be
welcome on Wikipedia. The very act of accepting these types into the
community would be an insult.
The act of openly rejecting these types is just as big an insult. Who's
next? Non-Americans?
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