[WikiEN-l] Re: A neo-Nazi wikipedia

Thu Aug 25 19:16:43 UTC 2005

On 8/25/05, Measure <measure at gmail.com> wrote:
>  If you don't ever call anything evil, you also lose the power to present
> anything as "Good." I disagree that we should refain from taking a moral
> stance and let the facts just sort themselves out because of this.
>  For example, if I refuse to call a serial killer 'evil' and just write what
> he did, I also lose the ability to call the detecitive who caught him a
> 'good' person, as all I can do is present the facts. I would also
> technically lose the ability to say what happened to the victims was 'bad'.
>  I know wiki is supposed to have a NPOV, but that doesn mean that it has to
> lack moral judgement as well.

Wikipedia is not a place for moral judgements.  We don't need the
power to present anything as "good" or call anything "evil".

In fact, we should <i>avoid</i> all temptation to present things as
"good" or "evil".

Making moral judgements is not the realm of encyclopedia writers.  

Instead, we report the moral judgements of others in the world,
properly sourced and cited.

That is what NPOV is.  

-- 
Michael Turley
User:Unfocused