[WikiEN-l] The Censorship Lie

Wed Feb 16 21:32:35 UTC 2005

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:22:51 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> Skyring said:
> >
> > And guess what? If you look at what the general public regards as good
> > encyclopaedias in this day and age, you'll see no Autofellatio, no
> > Goatse, no terrorist beheadings. I suggest that the people who think
> > that such material belongs in a good encyclopaedia are a tiny
> > minority.
> 
> Evidently not, else they would be so massively outnumbered on Wikipedia
> that such articles would be a cinch for VfD.

Hmmm. Wikipedia as the real world. Even in microcosm it doesn't come
close to being a true reflection. Most people in RL don't spend their
days fooling around writing an encyclopaedia.

-- 
Peter in Canberra