[WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

[stevertigo]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lilliputian nationalist form a network and come over to Wikipedia, turning
> the article about Blefuscu into a travesty.  A lone Blefuscu native sees
> the
> imbalance and tries to address it, engaging in mediation and eventually
> arbitration.  Afterward the Lilliputians successfully get the Blefuscuan
> topic banned because the Blefuscuan isn't adding to the imbalance of
> negative information about his own country.


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> I'm afraid the proposal will work to the advantage of one side of the
> dispute, to the detriment of the other. One side is generally well
> educated and familiar with looking at both sides of an issue; the other
> is not, with no meaningful access to either education or sophisticated
> cultural memes.
>

Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the
other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how
does it help our
discussion to to say either of these things?

-SV