[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/29 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
> Wikipedia as an outlet devolves control over information "to the people" -
> that is, people outside of hierarchical organizations where control and
> responsibility for information is assigned by some measure of merit.
>
> In 99.99% of cases this works out quite well; in the others, as we can see
> just from this thread, laudable goals (saving a life in imminent danger)
> would be discarded by those who see the world in absolutes and abhor
> compromise. It's a drawback we'll be grappling with for the entire lifespan
> of this project, I'm sure, and while we got it right in this case... In at
> least some instances, we can expect that views like those held by WJohnson
> and geni will prevail.

I don't think it's necessarily that people abhor compromise, it's that
we have no way to privately discuss these things and nobody that can
really impose a decision without discussion.