[WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

[stevertigo]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:


> The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few
> problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans.
> (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than
> NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors
> accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and
> don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as
> they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet.
>

Well, at least English language training can help, at least to give people a
foundation. And for those with sufficient English proficiency and the
interest to come and participate, Wikipedia can give them an education - one
way or another. It's in everybody's interest that such education be less
"enforced" and be instead more enlightening, and that's why I think people
aren't so interested in concepts of "enforcement" as they are in
collaboration.

-SV