On 31/12/2008, toddmal...@gmail.com <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > NPOV is not just a rule. It's what allows us to have a project at all. It is > not "right" to violate NPOV because reality hurts someone's feelings. > Reality frequently is painful. It's neither possible nor our job to change > that. > It's our job to make a neutral, factual, verifiable reference work. Not > to > impose our notions of right and wrong.
That is A definition of right and wrong, you're saying that the wikipedia is more important than individuals. You're valuing the wikipedia more than them. That's your right. But it's also his right to value individuals above the wikipedia. > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> > Subj: Re: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons > Date: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:13 pm > Size: 509 bytes > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 toddmal...@gmail.com wrote: >> I've even been told, by someone who should know better, that BLP is >> more important than NPOV, and saw not a bit of outrage. > > NPOV is a rule. BLP is about doing what's right. > > Some people elevate rules over doing what's right. I'm not one of them. -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be much better. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
