[Wikipedia-l] Sensitive subjects on some Wikipedias

[Berto 'd Sera]

Hoi again,

I suppose his sources are these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Willibald 

Well... much in the same way the legend of the Theban Legion rose in Turin,
mostly in the same period. 

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban_legion 

So much for medieval "biographers".

Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
 

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2007/7/15, Berto 'd Sera <albertoserra at ukr.net>:

> "extending and correcting history" sounds a bit arbitrary, to say the
least.
> I have LOTS of things that I would rewrite in mainstream history, and even
> evidence for at least some of them, yet... this would be a new history
book,
> not an encyclopedia.
>
> Honestly, I don't understand how they can keep such a stance within the
> bounds of the NPOV policy, let alone original research. I understand
> documenting alternative views on a given issue, but ignoring a mainstream
> view altogether seems wrong to me.

Well, it's not a case of ignoring the mainstream view. However, the
discussion is about whether we are to discuss the mainstream view
(that Boniface was killed by robbers) and then the criticisms of it
(that it might for example have been a planned action of Frisians
resisting christening), or whether we are to spend at least as much
space to this person's private ideas (that Bonifatius was executed
because thirty years earlier he had torn down some holy oaks).

-- 
Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644  --  Skype: a_engels

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