[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Commitee Seeking Comment

Mon Jun 6 18:04:58 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>steven l. rubenstein said:
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>>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.
>>    
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>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.
>
Insisting on a solution to that paradox leads to the whole cloth from 
which religions (including scientism) are carved.

People find it very difficult to accept that a problem may have no 
solution or that a question may have no answer.

Ec