[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedians/Queer etc.
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 12 06:47:31 UTC 2002
On Monday 11 November 2002 09:39 pm, wikipedia-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> -------
> Just because you are a Linux user, or happen to be gay, or a vegetarian
> doesn't mean that you have the requisite knowledge to write NPOV articles
> on these subjects. These pages are therefore only of peripheral interest
> and should be moved to a POV-friendly forum.
> ------
>
> Well, if you want to look at it that way, just because you are a Canadian
> or a Russian or a Scot doesn't mean you have the requisite knowledge to
> write NPOV articles on that subject. So I suppose we should move the
> geography ones too.
>
> Matt
Yep - all these categories are at best only of peripheral interest and at
worst highly POV and hurtful.
Moving all these pages will take some time though....
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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