George Herbert wrote:
On 6/21/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/21/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
I think that the first is true, and if not we
should seriously look at
why not. I think that there is no reason for the second to be true.
There is. Long term semi protection really only hits a very small
number of subjects. The number of subjects that enough people feel
strong about to cause a problem is unlikely to increase.
You might be right, but it doesn't strike me as obviously so. [...]
Empirically I find it to be true. It's amazing how many people
will fight tooth and nail to get their POV into [[X]], while
being oblivious to [[History of X]], [[X and Y]], [[X-Z effect]],
[[list of Xes]], etc, all of which will have extensive material
inconsistent with the wanted POV. (My unkind belief is that POV
pushers are simply not smart enough to figure out that the
encyclopedia has more than one article.)
There are alway outliers of course - I'm no longer amazed at how
even the most obscure topic can push *somebody's* button. We have
talk pages with three-year-old streams of invective that have yet
to find anybody else who cares...
Stan