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

[geni]

2009/5/26 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:
> This is another example of being overly literal and avoiding common sense.

I'm not interested in the prejudices you acquired by the age of ten.

> Obviously, when I say Wikipedia should avoid harm, I don't mean it should
> avoid *any harm whatsoever*.

Then don't say that.


>Rather, it means that we need to think about
> how much harm something can do and not cause harm that is exceptionally acute
> when the benefit to the encyclopedia is relatively small.  How do you figure
> this out?  Well, you have to think--there's no rule for it.

Anything that doesn't present a significant chance of destroying the
species cannot be considered exceptionally acute given how many things
there are around that do carry that risk.

-- 
geni