[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[Marc Riddell]

> 
> On Jan 1, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Marc Riddell wrote:
> 
>> on 1/1/09 9:52 AM, Phil Sandifer at snowspinner at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> This really is how bad our policy
>>> formation has gotten - there is a sincere belief that specialist
>>> knowledge is actually harmful to Wikipedia.
>>> 
>> It's the dominant culture, Phil. And, sadly, it is the way the
>> Project has
>> been headed for some time now.

on 1/1/09 1:28 PM, Phil Sandifer at snowspinner at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Indeed. But it is, in practice, not difficult to find the most
> pernicious pieces of bad policy that allow that move, and to make it
> so that people who are actually interested in writing a useful
> resource for our readers can do so.
> 
> As it stands, Wikipedia is increasingly at risk of having its quality
> swept away by the increasingly large community, and the resultant drop
> in quality of the average community member that entails.
> 
> This hard and fast rule against specialist knowledge - and the bizarre
> belief that the solution is to strengthen it - is a key place where
> pushing back is beneficial.
> 
Our last two posts must have waved at each other as they went by :-).

Phil, I have been "pushing back" for the three years that I have been here.
And it is worse now than when I came. And a great part of the problem is
that the "leadership" that does exist here appears to condone the current
thinking. I believe it is time for me to help build an alternative.

Marc