[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Marc Riddell]

> On 3/31/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I humbly suggest that the code "do no harm" is older and more virtuous
>> than any statue book.

on 3/30/07 8:57 PM, geni at geniice at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> However it conflicts with things like NPOV and "wikipedia is an encyclopedia".

"Do no harm" is not a "point of view" - it is a standard of behavior, and
must prevail. And, if Wikipedia's identity as an encyclopedia does not
include "do no harm", it needs to rethink that identity.
> 
> Information is almost always harmful to someone

And, thereforeŠ?
> 
>> I obviously do not share your belief in legal
>> positivism. Some things are wrong, even if we can't be sued.

on 3/30/07 8:57 PM, geni at geniice at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> I don't recall signing up to a system of ethics when editing wikipedia.

Did you not have your own? And if you did, what was it? And, if not, why
not?

Marc Riddell