On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:54 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales <[email protected]>: >> > I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions >> > >> > ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. >> > ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or >> > >recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or >> > >otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, >> > >self-promotion, or advertising. >> > >> > I would also note that the sorts of people who deny the Holocaust are >> > generally the sorts of people who ought to be blocked on sight from >> > editing Wikipedia. >> > >> > --Jimbo >> >> That would involve blocking a significant chunk of our potential Arab >> editors. Holocaust denial has fairly popular in certain parts of the >> world. > > > Jimbo didn't say anyone who denies the Holocaust should be blocked, as > though Wikipedia should engage in thought-crime. He said "the sorts of > people who deny the Holocaust are generally the sorts of people who ought to > be blocked on sight from editing Wikipedia". High correlation, not > causation. > > Anyway, in places where Holocaust denial really is widespread, it's > probably similar to young earth creationism beliefs here in the US. > Something you probably could find a lot of people state that they believe if > you did a poll (Wikipedia suggests 44%), but not something that really is > integrated into their worldview. But maybe I'm wrong, there. Holocaust > denial certainly seems more dangerous than belief in young earth > creationism. >
By the way, I suppose Godwin's law has been proven once again. Little over a week from Virgin Killer to the Holocaust. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
