[Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon global Wikimedianprinciples

Sat Aug 9 14:43:58 UTC 2008

2008/8/9 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> - A derivative of the scientific method, the encyclopedic method, has
> to be applied strictly. There is no space for, let's say, applying
> methods of some religion in building an encyclopedia.

The catholic encyclopedia?

> - Encyclopedia is not an original research and, ideally, every claim
> has to be sourced.

Not so for example some of the early work in deciphering hieroglyphics
was originaly published in the encyclopedia Britannica.

> - While opinions are welcome if they are based on sources, one
> encyclopedic article mustn't be biased.

EB1911 has some pretty clear biases.

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geni