[Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 15:58:19 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Mike Christie <coldchrist at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Perhaps the policies can be improved, but they are written to stop bad
> editing rather than to encourage good editing.  I don't think that can be
> changed.  It's impossible to legislate good judgement, and it's judgement
> that was called for with the Haymarket article.
>

 As of now they do not merely allow, but require the removal of
various kinds of good editing. And though it is impossible to
legislate good judgement, it is possible to supply enforcers with
equipment far in excess of what doing their job properly requires.


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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]




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