> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, George Herbert wrote: >> BLP is a good idea and we got it for good reasons. These recent >> developments, however, forget that we are *an encyclopedia*. It's into >> barking mad territory. >> >> No. We will not go to removing bios on demand on my watch. > > I would suggest as a modest proposal that we do away with "Wikipedia is > an > encyclopedia". I've already suggested that we do away with the IAR > clause "to improve the encyclopedia". > > "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" constantly gets misinterpreted to mean "we > may never allow other concerns to take precedence over being > encyclopediac". This is wrong.
I would prefer we limit content to encyclopedic content. Obviously aggregating news, especially about individuals, is incompatible with that purpose. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
