Christopher Mahan wrote:
Khendon wrote:
Anybody who wants to be in a community of different values can start a new one.
Unfortunately that is not the case if Wikipedia still clings to the notion that it would cover human knowledge. The only requirement for that is to be humans. Tigers and whales can set up their "Tigers and Whales" encyclopedia.
No, what you should say is: That is not the case if Wikipedia clings *only* to the notion that it will cover human knowledge. But it *also* clings to certain other notions, such as NPOV. POV writers can set up theire POV encyclopaedia.
To deny access to wikipedia who do not conform to 20th century western academic standards would deny, oh, roughly, 90% of the human race from participating.
Right, which is why Wikipedia (unlike Nupedia) has no such limits.
It's sort of like saying: all persons have inalieanble rights yet only citizens have access to lawyers free of charge. Pretty silly huh?
Yes, pretty silly. You have my support in national politics. But that's a situation with no analogy here.
-- Toby