[WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Mon Apr 28 12:11:03 UTC 2003


Fred Bauder wrote:
> We get all over those who would deny the holocaust; no reason not to
> not adopt the same sort of disrespect and impose the same restraints
> upon those who would deny the sins of Marxism-Leninism.

I agree completely, but neither case requires us to deviate from NPOV.

The simplest tool for dealing with this sort of situation is to "go
meta".  We don't _exclude_ unfavorable information, we _attribute_ it.

> Exclusion of unfavorable information is not a neutral point of view, but
> bowing to what is essentially a demand that such information be censored.

--Jimbo



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