On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Jaska Zedlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you, but not obligatory a list. I meant any form, even a number > of rules written on this mailing list. Otherwise we (may) have a > situation when, for instance, a user puts some inflammatory or > divisive content on their user page and administrators are unable to > delete it, until a policy which regulates this is adopted locally. > NPOV and Wikimedia Founding principles regulate only "articles and > other encyclopedic content" and can't be applied in this case. I don't think this is something that can be decided for all Wikipedias on beforehand. To me, this would fall under one rule that might be said to apply generally: ignore all rules. More specifically, if there is a situation that has a negative effect on a Wikipedia, and there are no local rules regarding the situation, anyone has the right to take the action that they seem best. If we're talking about general rules, there are two that I can think of. The first is NPOV, which has already been mentioned, the second is GFDL. Or rather, free licensing. All Wikipedia material should be free as in speech. And reading through the foundation principles, I see a third: freedom to edit. Everyone should be free to edit (unless they have actually misused this right). -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
