[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[George Herbert]

Phil - can you be more specific about that policy?

Where is it?

I haven't run into it in areas I care about, and if it's there right now
that's a bad enough thing that I'll go tilt at it for a while.


-george william herbert


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Phil Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Phil
>
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-george william herbert
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