[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as moral tool?

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 6/5/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
> William Pietri wrote:
> > I'm just saying that making the moral choices on behalf of our readers
> > rather than leaving it up to them makes me nervous, both because I'm not
> > sure where it will end and because I fear it will be the source of
> > unending disagreement.
> >
> I agree that making moral choices is not our business, and I'll go
> further and say that a good chunk of our reputation derives from readers
> realizing that we work hard to stick to the facts of any situation. But
> every day that WP's visibility increases, there's going to that much
> more pressure from outside forces who see NPOV as tantamount to
> promotion of immorality. Our best defense is to be perceived as
> zealously neutral and capable of taking on all opponents, an Internet
> version of a Switzerland armed to the teeth against POV-pushers.
>
> Stan
>
>
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Moral and ethics are not the same thing.