[WikiEN-l] The Times They are a'Changin'

Fri Oct 3 19:29:03 UTC 2003

--- Abe Sokolov <abesokolov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Jimbo's "double edge sword" comment was very well
> put. Both users function 
> best on the Israeli-Palestinian articles when they
> have each other by the 
> throat.

Nonsense.

> Btw, Sv's Bob Dylan allusion should be leaving us
> with more than the tune to 
> "The Times They are a'Changin'" in our heads. Made
> with such decidedly bad 
> taste, it started to prove me right sooner than I
> had expected. 
> Israeli-Palestinian neutrality was little more than
> an equilibrium of RK and 
> Sv. Without RK, Sv's side's going to have a far
> greater say over all the 
> articles than ever - which will encourage new
> RK-types to invade the site in 
> droves.

Nonsense. 

> Those favoring a ban on RK are way off if they think
> that the outcome is 
> going to be NPOV (or maybe they don't care - maybe
> their reasons are solely 
> personal and ideological). I can understand that -
> I'd much rather work with 
> the more reasonable Sv (whose worldview is by and
> large is far closer to 
> mine than RK's is)- but that's not in Wikipedia's
> interests as a whole.

Nonsense.

Respectfully,
~S~

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