On 1/1/09, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > much more complicated one that most Wikipedians do not understand > and which is much more likely to be confusing.
You can help Wikipedia by explaining it to other Wikipedians (unless of course you're speaking for yourself). > to try the complicated one first is playing technical games with the > encyclopedia. Oh, the one that lets you edit after 4 days, 10 edits, and 0 [[brownie points]]. I forgot who it was that recently drew an absurd parallel between BLP issues and handgun fatalities, something to the effect of leaving articles unprotected being comparable to "giving a child a loaded gun". Maybe so but an adult (or an "autoconfirmed" account) who has no experience handling a loaded gun before (or driving a car, or whatever you want to compare it to) isn't going to handle it much more safely than a child. Sure they've "seen more of the world" but have no experience specific to a potentially dangerous task. On the other hand we could argue all day about the difference between a waiting period for you at the pawn shop counter and a waiting period for the bullet after it takes flight. Personally I think it's a very important one! —C.W. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l