[WikiEN-l] Fairness in Wikipedia

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

What's the point of being fair to people if doing so would break Wikipedia?

On 4/1/07, Andries Krugers Dagneaux <andrieskd at chello.nl> wrote:
>
> >Editors from English--speaking and European countries do operate under
> >more or less the same ethical system, which promotes freedom and
> >fairness [..]
>
> That is untrue. One of the working principles of the arbcom is that it
> does not want to be fair to editors, but to make decisions that will
> help the project. This was explicitly written down by arbcom members
> Flonight and Charles Matthews. I hence decided to follow their example
> of not trying to be fair to others in Wikipedia.
>
> Andries
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