[WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

[Durova]

Heh, not necessarily so easy.

Over here in California it isn't very hard to find respectable history books
that go on about how mild and paternalistic the mission system was, and that
just happen to mention in passing that the local indigenous population
declined by something like three-quarters over forty years.

Ask how those facts could possibly be compatible, and a common answer is
"Well we don't really know how many of them there were in the beginning
anyway."

English proficiency on both sides doesn't make things easier at all when you
sit a few individuals like that in the same room with a half dozen of the
remaining Chumash.

-Durova

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> on 5/8/09 6:30 PM, stevertigo at stvrtg at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> The best contribution to this thread so far!
>
> PS: Another exclusive mailing list, Sarah :-(.
>
> Marc Riddell
>
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