[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia moderators and moral authority (was Re: Repost: clear guidelines and the power to enforce)

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Mon Nov 11 17:44:36 UTC 2002


The Cunctator wrote:

>On 11/11/02 12:21 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
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>>What it comes down to is a tough choice between two choices:
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>>(1) We are building a free encyclopedia. Therefore, we use Wiki software.
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>>(2) We are maintaining a Wiki community. If we make some good encyclopedia
>>articles, that's nice too.
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>This is a false dilemma.
>http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/false-dilemma.html
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>We have one choice:
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>(1) We are building a free Wiki encyclopedia.
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Cunc, I think your above reasoning should also be applied to the 
following (that you posted a while ago)

(a) we are one multi-lingual encyclopedia
(b) we are many encyclopedias, one in each of many languages









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