[WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Goodman [mailto:dgoodmanny at gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 02:00 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>So it seems that the problem after all is the basic idea, "that
>anyone can edit". We have people who can be trusted to write extremely
>good fair articles on many topics, but we can't count on their being
>the ones to write the article.
>
>We are then saying that there are some topics not appropriate for an
>open wiki, and that WP can not aspire to be a universal encyclopedia
>because we cannot really count on maintaining a neutral point of view.
>
>I think this is what some of Fred's messages amount to: the editorial
>and review procedures at WP cannot be trusted, so there must also be
>some top-down control, namely by him (and Jimbo, who joined this
>discussion to endorse his views)
>
>DGG
>David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.

I don't think Jimbo endorsed my views, but I think we probably agree that when things go wrong responsible editors should try to fix them. That could include you, or not.

Fred

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