[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[William Pietri]

fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
> Yep, your stawmen are indeed straw. You know they are not genuine alternatives, just debating points. 

Fred, your habit of picking one thing -- generally peripheral -- out of 
a longer post to disagree with, replying with a couple of lines, and 
apparently ignoring the meat of my point is wearing on me a little.

You appeared to ask what NPOV had to do with this. Since you are having 
trouble seeing it at the small scale of a link to Michael Moore's web 
site, I thought taking the principles to an extreme would make it 
clearer. I think that's technically a reductio ad absurdum and not a 
straw man: I never suggested that you or anybody advocated the extreme 
version.

Regardless, if that's not helpful, you can just say, "Sorry, that 
doesn't help me. What I'm really trying to understand is...." Given 
that, I'm glad to try again.

I definitely don't see this as some sterile debate.  I think it's an 
important issue for Wikipedia's future, and want to be sure that 
everybody at least understands the risks that we see, whether or not 
they see other issues as larger.


William

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