On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM, quiddity <pandiculat...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip> > As has been said before: Most of these types of conflicts can be > boiled down to [[m:Immediatism]] vs [[m:Eventualism]]. > (imho) Immediatism is great for BLPs, and CurrentEvents, and dealing > with unambiguous problems; but Eventualism is one of the core reasons > behind Wikipedia's successes, a fact that is sometimes insufficiently > recognized. Thanks, Quiddity! That was an excellent summary, and I hope some of the people posting here take the time to go and read those discussions (I remember some of those!). Those discussions do illustrate the philosophical differences here. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
