[Wikipedia-l] "In memoriam"

[Stephen Gilbert]

I think there's a lot of good encyclopedia material in
Cunc's 9/11 pages. I understand that it happened in
your backyard, C., and so it hit you harder than a lot
of people. I hope you don't take my comments badly.

My biggest concern about the collection of pages is
that it shows a heavy American bias. The events of
September 11, 2001 were tragic, but not unique.
Atrocities are all too common in the world, and yet
only 9/11 has a collection of memorial pages on
Wikipedia.

I know that a counter-argument can be made that other
people could put up other memorials, but I'm against
that too. Memorials are not encyclopedia articles.

I think the pages should be moved to the meta and
linked to from the main Sept. 11 page. I'm not in
favour of "sept11.wikipedia.org"; the meta is where we
post our personal materials. Another option would be a
completely separate wiki with a non-Wikipedia domain
name.

Stephen Gilbert

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