[Wikipedia-l] Racialisme

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Fri Jan 31 17:19:56 UTC 2003


Yann Forget wrote:
> However, I do not support the idea to block people who write racist
> articles.  It's counter-productive. It's better to correct their
> articles and show them the limit (as defined by the law in
> France). And this as long as they are few and we can correct their
> articles.

I don't think I can emphasize strongly enough that French law is
irrelevant for our purposes here.  Appealing to censorship laws is not
a firm foundation for writing better articles, the NPOV policy is.

--Jimbo



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