[WikiEN-l] "Suicide methods" article

[Jeff Raymond]

Tim Starling wrote:

> Draw the line where good judgement dictates that it should be drawn.

We're not in the market of making "good" or "bad" judgement - we're in the
market of building a comprehensive encyclopedia.

> Don't
> defend a policy on the basis that there exists no better policy that a
> robot could understand -- we are not robots.

Although we'd probably benefit from it in a lot of cases.

>  Wikipedia is not a platform
> for free speech, the lack of censorship does not mean we should publish
> everything that can possibly be published. We need to select our material
> based on more nuanced criteria.

I can't buy into that, I'm sorry.  If "nuanced criteria" means "removing
information that may cause harm to someone," forget it.  We have enough
subjectivity already.

-Jeff


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