[WikiEN-l] Jesus edit ninjas (no subject)

[Alvaro García]

Sorry, are you Icelandic?


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Alvaro

On 21-01-2009, at 20:02, Oskar Sigvardsson  
<oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, David Goodman  
> <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even people with similar general understanding and the utmost good
>> will can have difficulty in trying to condense complex  ides into a
>> creed, or a lede paragraph.
>>
>> In the Real World, the question of whether and in what sense Jesus is
>> an incarnation of God has been debted for over 19 centuries now, and
>> many of the nastier of the debates have involved single words--in one
>> case,  a single letter.  As this is what  the intellectual and
>> spiritual leaders of mankind have done, there is no reason to expect
>> anything other than that here, unless we are all too ignorant to know
>> about the controversies or totally indifferent to the issues. The  
>> main
>> advantage we have over the RW is that it is not possible to spill  
>> real
>> blood over the internet.
>
> My point is that in the context of wikipedia, what the lede should
> say, the issue has been hammered out by megabytes of discussion and
> revision. It's not like you can walk in there and say "hey guys, you
> know, the article should really say so-and-so, so I'm just gonna fix
> it for ya!". There is a reason the articles says what it says. As I
> said, there's surely been battles about where to put every comma, and
> the version that is there now represents some form of consensus about
> how the article should start.
>
> You can't go in and change that, and not expect to be reverted.
>
> --Oskar
>
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