[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

Sun Feb 20 01:24:06 UTC 2005

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:32:57 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:

> > If you start thinking like the average internet user (i.e. those
> > affluent middle class people who got so riled up about the Super Bowl
> > last year)
> 
> Only in one country.  The rest of the world was left scratching its heads
> and wondering what all the fuss was about.  US news programs even carried
> th images with the breast pixellated out, while non-US news programs
> showed the incident uncensored.  Please do not assume that the standards
> of one country are universal.>

Yeah - pity about you ignoring the entire Islamic world, and much of
the rest of the world too that would have standards clashing with such
an occurance.

Is Wikipedia just going to ignore the mainstream because a majority
(if it is) of editors don't agree with their standards.

Wikipedia should be an encyclopaedia for all, not its editors amusing
themselves and setting up things the way *they* want.

Zoney