[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as moral tool?

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

>William Pietri wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
I can go along with that.  The public often fails to distinguish between 
immorality and amorality.  I don't know if being zealous need be a part 
of it, but a willingness to scrupulously question our own individual 
POVs is important.

Ec