From: Matt R
<matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Internal Radio
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:54:44 +0100 (BST)
--- Wouter Steenbeek <musiqolog(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>Wouter wrote:
> > Suppose, by comparision, that I suggested for fun that orthodox
Muslims
>were
> > right in saying homosexuals should be executioned. I don't think
that
>would
> > make you smile; in your position, I would ask for immediate removal
of
the
> offender from the mailing list and permanent blocking on Wikipedia.
Why on earth should such a person be blocked?
-- Matt
Because I would take it serious and don't want people with this and
similar
views to edit Wikipedia.
Why shouldn't people with such views edit Wikipedia? What about NPOV
(Neutral
Point of View)?
NPOV has its limits, Matt. Such persons would probably start modfiing pages
like [[Homosexuality]], [[Sexuality]], [[Osama bin Laden]], [[George Bush]]
etc etc, just because extremists cannot distinguish fact and opinion. Of
course, they cannot be removed after a lot of such violations.