[WikiEN-l] Re: Sep 11 (wasL User:LanceMurdoch)

Fri Jan 16 20:25:47 UTC 2004

Rick a écrit:
> You said the title of the article is POV.  That would mean that there is 
> no Anti-French sentiment in the US, which is obviously not true.
>  
> RickK

You do not read me well Rick :-)
Or I do not explain myself clearly enough

Here is the thread again

Daniel Mayer wrote:

Blacklisting terms is a very bad idea and is more PC than NPOV. Let's 
not forget that PC is in fact an extreme form of POV and is *not* akin 
to NPOV at all (which really deals with article *content* and not titles 
- titles are dealt with through our naming conventions).

Tarquin then said
I wonder what happens when the PC brigade come across articles that 
begin "So-and-so is a black British actor"

I commented
I would like the PC brigade to have a look at the title of the 
[[anti-french sentiment in the United States]] as well

	(hint : I was talking of *having* a PC title for the antifrench 	 
sentiment, not claiming there was no antifrench sentiment)

Then you said
Well, I'm certainly confused.  Are you saying that there is NO 
Anti-French sentiment in the United States?

I answered
About as much as [[September 11 terrorist attack]] ever happened in the US.

	(hint : I was thinking that if [[September 11 terrorist 			attack]] was 
renamed for PC reasons, we could perhaps do 			the same for the 
[[anti-french sentiment in the United 				States]], and make it more PC 
as well)

	(another hint : I was saying that it was just as funny to try to 
hinder the "terrorist" aspect of the attack, than trying to 			pretend 
there was no antifrench sentiment in the US)

Then you commented
You said the title of the article is POV.  That would mean that there is 
no Anti-French sentiment in the US, which is obviously not true.

I answer
You do not read well Rick :-)

	(hint : that means I never wrote anywhere the title of 				the article 
was POV. That was interpretation of your part. I 			only commented on PC 
considerations. In short, we are just 			talking of two different 
things. I was also mentionning the 			suggestion Jimbo made a year ago : 
the title [[French American 			relationships]] is more **PC** than the 
current one.

I often think that I write too much in length, but sometimes, it is best 
that I use 10 times more words, since visibly, I am so little understood.

Do you understand now ?

	(hint : if you tell me again that I am wrong in claiming that 			there 
is no antifrench sentiment in the US, play again :-))

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What were you saying Ed ?
School ?
Text analysis ?