What a terribly ill-informed comment. This is something one sees regularly in new editors, ones who misunderstand NPOV thinking that it is a simple formula of good stuff + critical stuff == balanced article. Adding Chinese anti-Tibetan propaganda in order to appease them is not a sensible idea.
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 06:14:16 -0600 > From: fredb...@fairpoint.net > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in blacklist trouble again > > > On 05/09/2013 07:19 AM, Anthony Cole wrote: > >> We would be failing in our mission to disseminate educational > >> information > >> effectively and globally if, due to an ideological attachment to > >> NOTCENSORED, we took the former option. > > > > You're saying this as though those things were orthogonal to each other. > > They are not. When we bow to random entities' wishes of what is > > "correct" educational information, you've already fatally compromised > > that mission. > > > > Should we remove the articles about Tibet from zhwp so that the PRC is > > more accepting of Wikipedia? > > > > -- Coren / Marc > > No, but including accurate information about the conditions of life of > the serfs and slaves of old Tibet, and the ridiculous superstitions of > the lamas will go a long way toward lifting blocking of those pages. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
