[WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck?

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM, quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com> wrote:

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> As has been said before: Most of these types of conflicts can be
> boiled down to [[m:Immediatism]] vs [[m:Eventualism]].
> (imho) Immediatism is great for BLPs, and CurrentEvents, and dealing
> with unambiguous problems; but Eventualism is one of the core reasons
> behind Wikipedia's successes, a fact that is sometimes insufficiently
> recognized.

Thanks, Quiddity! That was an excellent summary, and I hope some of
the people posting here take the time to go and read those discussions
(I remember some of those!). Those discussions do illustrate the
philosophical differences here.

Carcharoth