[WikiEN-l] Looking at the real world

Sat Sep 3 18:18:51 UTC 2005

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Matt R wrote:

> Are you saying that the ArbComm should be amoral?

Essentially, yes. If Hitler was able to contribute usefully to the
project, but Mother Theresa wasn't, we'd be forced to ban the latter,
and it would be outside of our remit to ban the former. However, in the
real world, generally the nasty pieces of work who, based on the general
consensus morals that we have but aren't meant to project into the
encyclopædia, "deserve" to be banned will act in a way that isn't for
the good of the project either, and so they get banned, too.

Hmm. Did you mean "amoral with respect to the participants' nature", or
"amoral with respect to the participants' activities on Wikipedia"? It
rather changes the question, and my answer to it...

Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail    : james at jdforrester.org
IM (MSN)  : jamesdforrester at hotmail.com
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