[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

[David Gerard]

On 29/09/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2006, at 19:22, George Herbert wrote:
> > On 9/28/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> >> So, the current situation is that
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_%28town%29%2C_New_York
> >> contains the following completely out-of-context and unverified and
> >> unverifiable paragraph:

> > I think that using a school website for additional descriptive
> > information
> > of the nature of the tidbits above is eminently reasonable.

> I disagree. Wikipedia is not about an organisation's
> view of itself, but the view of a disinterested observer.


The reader will be interested in a summary of what the school thinks
about itself. I don't see how that's not relevant to a useful article.


- d.