[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on Commons

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon May 10 23:03:34 UTC 2010


On 10 May 2010 23:53, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> On the talk page, I mostly see people calling it out for the
>> censorship stalking horse it was.
>> You can tag a goat "a very special sort of chicken," but people will
>> see through that.

> So you are saying anything labelled "content guidelines" will be
> called "censorship"? That's silly. You have to have limits when
> writing an encyclopedia, otherwise you just end up with a mess like
> the internet.


No indeed, that's not what I said, it's a version you appear to have
derived through an "all A is B therefore all B is A" fallacy. I was
speaking of the example at hand.


- d.



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