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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/07/07, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/13/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste(a)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.
_______________________________________________
Wikipedia-l mailing list
Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l