[Wikipedia-l] Re: Sanger/Wales wars continued

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 20 06:09:21 UTC 2005



Delirium a écrit:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
>> I don't think any reasonable person would object to calling Larry a
>> "co-founder of Wikipedia". To call one troll on a blog comment a
>> "debate" is to blow things extraordinarily out of proportion.
> 
> 
> Since Jimbo has explicitly objected to calling Larry a "co-founder of 
> Wikipedia" several times, including in replies to one of Larry's 
> Kuro5hin articles, I'm not sure how it's just "one troll".  According to 
> Jimbo, Larry neither co-founded Wikipedia nor proposed the idea of a 
> wiki-based encyclopedia, but was merely an employee tasked with starting 
> it up.
> 
> -Mark


Guys....

If it is to write in meta, just write Jimbo founded Wikipedia.

If it is to write in encyclopedia, respect NPOV and properly attribute 
opinion to each relevant person.

Use NPOV, even to report on us :-)





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