[Wikipedia-l] Jimbo ? Others advices ?

Fri Jan 31 13:43:27 UTC 2003

Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
> Racism and anti-Semitism are not a problem of biais.
> Firstly it is attack to human dignity.
> Secondly it is forbidden by the french law.

Can you clarify for me what is against French law?  Is it against
French law to have a neutral article describing what racism and
anti-Semitism are, without making a judgment of any kind?

I sort of doubt if that would be against French law.

> > Following the UN point of view on wikipedia is wrong.
> > It is *against* the very idea of a neutral and
> > extensive encyclopedia.
> 
> ?

The wikipedia strives not to take a position on any controversial
issue.  If an issue is controversial, we merely describe the issue,
not taking a side.  This does NOT mean that we act as if "maybe racism
is moral, maybe not, who knows?"  We are not moral relativists.  But
we just describe what racism is, and leave the value conclusions to
the reader.

> I'm not agasint speak about those theory, I'm agaisnt those who
> claim there are right.

Very good.  To claim that they are right would be a serious violation
of NPOV.

> Except you, all wikipedians seem to agree the fact Philippe don't
> write articles to halp wikipedia, but onlu to bug us.

Well, I don't know enough to say for sure.  It seems that Philippe
does admit that his early efforts were bad, but he says that he will
do better.  I think that we should give him the benefit of the doubt
for now.  If he keeps trying to insert pro-racist (or pro-racialist)
articles, then he should be banned for that.

But for now, let's see how he does.

--Jimbo