[WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

Fri Apr 25 16:27:00 UTC 2003

I think it would be good for wikipedia if we adopted
the six color hat system. A critical/pessimistic view
is black hat, and there are other hats for
emotional/gut feeling, creative, optomistic, but I
forget the rest.  The article could be entitled
China/black hat or China (black hat). This flies in
the face of NPOV, but if we explicitly explained that
this was from a critical point of view, it could work.
Encyclopedias tend to be very POV.  My school World
Book encyclopedia is highly McCarthyist and
Eurocentric.

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> > I think the fundamental problem is that several
> parties to this
> > controversy essentially want an article written
> from a sympathetic
> > point of view. I suggest that they should have
> that freedom on
> > Wikipedia with critical views in a seperate
> article perhaps
> > entitled, China: A crititical view.
> 
> I think this is a very bad idea _for wikipedia_.  I
> think the idea of
> a website with critical essays written in
> wiki-fashion is an
> interesting one, but it isn't right for us.

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