[WikiEN-l] [[New Haven, Connecticut]]

Tue Mar 23 03:24:37 UTC 2004

You've made my point.  Thank you!  :-)
Ec

Rick wrote:

> Leave it to you to start making personal attacks.
>
>  
>
> RickK
>
> Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>     Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>     >Rick wrote:
>     >
>     >>My concern was not with some place that claims to have invented the
>     >>hamburger: it was just that the original poster was adding
>     >>off-the-cuff pizza places that, at least as far as was indicated in
>     >>the article, had no particular significance except possibly to the
>     >>poster. To me, this is POV: "These are the places you should eat at,
>     >>not any others."
>     >>
>     >Possibly it's POV, but I don't read it exactly that way. I'd say that
>     >the problem is not really POV here, but rather style and selectivity.
>     >We could frame it as a POV dispute, but I don't think that the person
>     >who wrote it really intended to slight anyone or advocate for
>     >anything.
>     >
>     Agreed, but for some POV is a too convenient bazooka for shooting
>     down
>     other people's contributions.
>
>
>     >I say: so what? Let's let them do it. It's not a major problem,
>     >since it's silly not many people will care to do it. It won't be
>     >well-linked from anywhere on the site, so almost no one will ever see
>     >it. I'm flexible on this point, because I think that it's hard to
>     >make blanket judgments, and that we would need a lot of case-by-case
>     >examples before we'd have enough experience to formulate a general
>     >rule.
>     >
>     I generally take this approach too. Sometimes those who want to
>     remove
>     these things remind me too much of a Dr. Strangelove who would go
>     to any
>     extent to preserve bodily humors.
>
>     Ec
>