Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-15 Thread Brock Weller
-Brock On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2010, George Herbert

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-30 Thread Brock Weller
I can't believe this idea is being seriously presented. We are an Encyclopedia. That is one of the Five Pillars ([[WP:5P]]). The job of a comprehensive encyclopedia is to facilitate access to information in an efficient manner. Putting extra barriers in front of that means you aren't looking at it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

2009-09-05 Thread Brock Weller
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: snip Is it not more likely that most long-term editors who

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-18 Thread Brock Weller
The 'deletionists' (and I use that word somewhat ironically, we don't have meetings or leaders or even a philosophy beyond 'improve the encyclopedia') vs the 'inclusionists' (I always thought that word was chosen as a catch-all to cast the other side as slightly evil, much like you can't help but

Re: [WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

2008-12-30 Thread Brock Weller
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Phil Sandifer snowspin...@gmail.com wrote: snip So basically, we have a phrase that mandates the violation of NPOV on a host of articles, that was inserted without discussion,