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

[Marc Riddell]

>> 
>>>> Common sense is the *lowest* level of intelligence. Has anyone you
>>>> know, actually died or got injured from the wikipedia, ever?
>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> -Ian Woollard
>>>> 
>> 
>> on 5/29/09 8:30 AM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure we're partially to blame for a suicide or two, by
>>> users,
>>> not readers...
>>> 
>> If you are serious here, Fred, that is quite a statement. Please be
>> careful
>> with that thought.
>> 
>> Marc Riddell

on 5/29/09 9:06 AM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:
> 
> Interactions between less than perfect people and less than perfect
> organizations are complex. We can do our best to be as compassionate as
> possible in all interactions, but there can be a great deal of pain
> regardless. That is one reason to try to keep the door open even with
> editors that are troublesome and be forgiving of human weakness.
> 
I agree with everything you say here, Fred. I was just stumbling over the
use of the word "suicide" in this context. As far as the Project dealing
"compassionately" with human interaction, I see no evidence of that. This
brings up the old question: What is more important, the product or the
people who create it? This Project has not successfully resolved that
question.

Marc