[WikiEN-l] Ellen Hambro ... Trade War vs. Trade Wars.

[Jay Litwyn]

Perhaps you should canvass for votes from Norwegians. Maybe the vote should 
even be restricted to Norwegians. I do not like the idea of Ingglish 
politicians being more significant only because English people seem to hav 
written the software used to describe them.

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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Sigvat Kuekiatngam Stensholt
> <st09039 at mi.uib.no> wrote:
>> I am in one sense amused, in another sense astonished, that Ellen
>> Hambro, the leader of what is effectively the Norwegian Environmental
>> Protection Agency, up for AFD, and even more astonished to see some long
>> time contributors voting to delete it.
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>> I fear that the zeal to delete articles in the name of enforcing
>> policies and the notability guidelines are starting to encroach upon the
>> fundamentals Wikipedia's mission to be an encyclopedia. We cannot
>> possibly claim to be comprehensive if we start deleting subjects covered
>> in the very works we want to surpass. I really don't consider myself an
>> "inclusionist", but is it really all that "inclusionist" to support
>> keeping subjects traditionally covered by encyclopedias?
>>
>> Sjakkalle