Cheney Shill wrote:
--- Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
I've already explained this elsewhere, so I'll only give a quick summary here. Wikipedia does something _right_ by letting everyone edit. The underlying philosophy is that everyone starts out as innocent
This is equivalent to saying existing users have superior knowledge to new users.
I'm sorry, I don't understand how.
You're claiming that the same thing you claim is wrong about the admin approval, to be suspicious of the admins intent, reliability, and knowledge, is actually being applied, at the very least, to every new user.
Well yes... who else do you think it is applied to? Clearly not the admins :-p
It seems the ruling policy, NPOV, is inherently suspicious and it's not really a problem to be suspicious from the ground up.
I honestly don't see what NPOV has to do with anything in this thread. What you're saying is not making much sense to me I'm afraid.
Timwi