[Wikipedia-l] censorship and guidelines

[Delirium]

Anthere wrote:

>Third solution : we all share a common goal of non censorship, but we admit we censor a little bit nevertheless and we admit that these decisions should be taken locally, by local communities.
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>Needless to say, I am all for the third one. I think minorities opinions should always be considered, and the argument that the english wikipedia community is the bigger so should be the one to decide for other communities is not valid as far as I am concerned. We have common goals, we have common big rules, but we have essentially local applications of these rules.
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But this is in itself a majority-rules view, in which minority opinions 
in a language are ignored.  Languages only correlate weakly with 
countries, and so what, for example, people from France say should not 
automatically be the deciding factor in what the fr: Wikipedia does.  
What French-speaking people from other countries say (and not just 
countries that have French as an official language) should also be taken 
into account.

Which is why, generally, I strongly oppose language-specific policies 
that cater towards "local" sentiment, where "local" is defined as "the 
dominant countries that speak the language".  This is fortunately 
easiest in the en: Wikipedia, because the U.S. and U.K. are quickly 
becoming less and less dominant in terms of English-speakers on the 
internet, so will no longer be able to consider en: their "local" 
Wikipedia, but a *global* one, but is still a major problem in many 
other languages...

-Mark