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NSK wrote: > There is a new initiative regarding software patents with the > name "Thank you, Poland!" at http://www.thankpoland.info . There > are banners you can use at http://www.thankpoland.info/banners.h > tml . RMS' FSF/GNU already supports the initiative by displaying > a banner at http://www.gnu.org . My site also supports "Thank > you, Poland!". I suggest that you should also do that, by > placing their banner on your main page.

Hello,

I personally like the idea, I even proposed to put a "get firefox" icon on every page :o)

One trouble is that we need NPOV and this is maybe too european centric.

cheers,

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Have you heard of [[Wikipedia:NPOV|NPOV]]?

N> How is NPOV applied on this issue? Saying that sofware patents are bad is a POV.

Wikipedia shouldn't participate in political issues

Saying that sofware patents are bad is a POV.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:52:19 +0200, NSK <nsk2(a)wikinerds.org> wrote: No, saying that software patents *aren't* bad is a POV; not saying either is an *omission*; saying that there are people who believe both is NPOV. If there were no article stating the case against software patents, *but there was one mentionning their advantages*, that would constitute a POV by omission. But if not putting something *on the main page* constitutes declaring a POV for one side of the argument (which side?), then we're putting out a lot of points of view right now, because I don't see every debate in the world mentionned on Wikipedia's front page. [I wonder which side of the abortion debate we're supporting by advertising neither the "Right to life" nor the "Right to choose"...] OK, so this is all a bit pedantic, but given that Wikimedia *isn't* a political advocacy Foundation - and in many ways strives to be the opposite - any exception to its normal neutrality would have to be considered very carefully indeed. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l