[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

Fred Bauder fredbaud at waterwiki.info
Wed Jan 17 14:08:25 UTC 2007


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:06 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium
>
>On 16 Jan 2007 at 14:58, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It points to a fundamental flaw in Citizendium, and one that wouldn't  
>> surprise anyone who saw Larry's name attached to it - it's an  
>> encyclopedia that favors experts that's run by someone with a view of  
>> the academy that is wildly out of step with current senses of what  
>> mainstream academic thought is.
>
>Out of step with the leftist PC bullshit that's been piled high and 
>deep on most campuses since the '60s, anyway.
>

That is certainly one way to look at it, but here we would called the "bullshit" a significant viewpoint which under NPOV ought to be fairly represented.

Fred





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