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Neal McBurnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > Rob Seaman wrote:
: > >>I hope we can all continue this discussion in a more positive manner.
:
: It is the nature of email lists to be good at stimulating discussion,
: and bad at generating clear resolutions. Thus was the FAQ born. But
: we have a more modern technology than FAQs, the wiki, which can more
: effectively funnel passionate energy from groups of people with
: diverging ideas into coherent descriptions of a variety of viewpoints,
: suitable for enlightening the world. Imperfectly, to be sure, but
: better than a mail list....
:
: I think the thing we need to do is build on what clarity we can find
: in the moment, and document it at wikipedia. If the folks discussing
: the "Jesus" article can arrive at a relatively stable set of positions
: (and last time I looked, they had done remarkably well, considering),
: surely we can also.
:
: Note the relatively successful policy of presenting things from a
: "Neutral Pointof View" (NPOV):
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
:
: So would folks be willing to collaborate at
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
:
: and related pages?
I've contributed to the unix time over leap seconds pages, and would
be happy to help. I feel I can write a good argument for both sides,
even though I have my preferences.
Warner
