[WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue May 26 14:40:14 UTC 2009


2009/5/26 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:
> This is a prime example of how rules are taken to be everything on Wikipedia,
> and how common sense is ignored.
>
> Wikipedia should not provide information that is likely to lead to harm.

That would require us to exclude information on rather a lot of ethnic
conflicts.

> If there's a rule which says that we must provide it, then that rule is wrong.
> This is so even if the rule is called a "mandate".  Mandates, rules, or
> whatever are never supposed to be applied without common sense.

Why do you expect anyone else to follow your version of "common sense"?


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geni



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