[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as moral tool?

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 6/5/07, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
> Marc Riddell stated for the record:
> > on 6/5/07 9:19 AM, William Pietri at william at scissor.com wrote:
> >
> >> That's not to say that we shouldn't suppress facts for moral purposes.
> >> There are good arguments for it.
> >
> > This is where you lost me, William. What do you mean?
> >
> > Marc Riddell
>
> I would assume that he is referring to how we handle BLP-style facts.
> Consider the home address and school attended by, say twelve-year-old TV
> actors [[Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten]].  We have collectively agreed
> that those facts should be suppressed, even if we could reliably verify
> them.
>
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I believe he's mixing up "using wikipedia AS a moral tool" and
"creating wikipedia witha sense of ethics", first one is about how you
use wikipedia, second not.

However, depending on where's your seat, you'll get a different kind
of noise, and thus will get a diferent idea of what's wikipedia and
what are people talking about