[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Commitee Seeking Comment

Sun Jun 5 20:19:32 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway stated for the record:

> steven l. rubenstein said:
> 
>>David, this is an issue I and others have raised repeatedly over the
>>past  years: many irresolvable disputes center on content, and
>>Wikipedia needs a  mechanism for dealing with these content-based
>>disputes.
> 
> 
> Why?  If the disputes are irresolvable, why is it necessary to bring in a
> deus ex machina to declare a resolution?  Isn't it just more honest to
> leave the irresolvable unresolved?  I find this, the current way, quite
> satisfactory and if the arbcom really is accepting cases that are in the
> realm of content disputes then they should simply be more parsimonious in
> the kind of dispute they accept.

No dispute is irresolvable once you get past that archaic idea of NPOV 
and accept OTPOV -- the One True Point of View.

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