Steve Summit wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 10/7/07 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Then the community isn't rational - that doesn't really surprise me.
Wikipedia is an emotional community - not a rational one. Whether this is acceptable is up to the Community itself.
Remember, too, that Wikipedia is supposed to be a community second (or, idealistically, not at all) and an encyclopedia- writing project first.
One could get into a lot of semantic issues here. There is a community whose primary objective is to build an encyclopedia. We can too easily confuse ourselves when we try to equate the two.
The nice thing about all this emotional hand-wringing policy stuff is that a lot of the time, you can just ignore it (well, as long as you're not reading this mailing list, anyway :-) ) and get on with the task of writing the encyclopedia.
Is there no salvation for those of us who regularly follow the mailing list(s)? :'(
Ec