[WikiEN-l] Autofellatio - NO to that image

Sun Feb 13 07:54:36 UTC 2005

--- blankfaze <blankfaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> If Wikipedia becomes a place where information is censored, then I
> think a lot of contributors will leave. 

We censor the encyclopedia fairly heavily. 

Have you ever been on RC patrol? Have you ever tried to bring an article from a
POV essay to an NPOV article? I have. And when I do, I delete and revert utter
crap at a high rate. For subpar content, I censor out the crap and salvage the
good parts.

Editorial standards are very much so a form of censorship. The reason why this
is a good thing, is because Wikipedia is not a social club. 

We are here to create a product. The community exists to serve that end. So
loosing some people who contribute crap to the encyclopedia is fine. 

> The great thing about
> Wikipedia is that it is not paper. It can have an unlimited amount of
> articles about topics you would never see in a traditional paper
> encyclopedia, including articles like Fuck, Robot fetishism, Dildo,
> and Autofellatio. 

Nobody here has arugued that we should not have articles on those subjects. 

-- mav

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