[Wikipedia-l] Sensitive subjects on some Wikipedias

[Steven Walling]

There's always idiocy, on every wiki. But Turks being allowed to use a WMF
wiki to continue to deny what was, lexicographically, the world's first
genocide isn't simple stupidity...it's evil. If such a word carries any real
meaning.

On 7/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/07/07, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/13/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>
> > > The Turkish Wikipedia has no article on Armenian Genocide.
> > > However, unlike all the other 38 Wikipedias which have articles
> > > on the "Armenian Genocide", it has an article on "Claims of
> > > an Armenian Genocide".
>
> > Because it would "insult Turkishness."
>
>
> Urgh. Is there any of this sort of idiocy on en:wp?
>
> That's a silly question. *How much* of this sort of idiocy is there on
> en:wp?
>
>
> - d.
>
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