Sorry, are you Icelandic?
-- Alvaro On 21-01-2009, at 20:02, Oskar Sigvardsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, David Goodman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Even people with similar general understanding and the utmost good >> will can have difficulty in trying to condense complex ides into a >> creed, or a lede paragraph. >> >> In the Real World, the question of whether and in what sense Jesus is >> an incarnation of God has been debted for over 19 centuries now, and >> many of the nastier of the debates have involved single words--in one >> case, a single letter. As this is what the intellectual and >> spiritual leaders of mankind have done, there is no reason to expect >> anything other than that here, unless we are all too ignorant to know >> about the controversies or totally indifferent to the issues. The >> main >> advantage we have over the RW is that it is not possible to spill >> real >> blood over the internet. > > My point is that in the context of wikipedia, what the lede should > say, the issue has been hammered out by megabytes of discussion and > revision. It's not like you can walk in there and say "hey guys, you > know, the article should really say so-and-so, so I'm just gonna fix > it for ya!". There is a reason the articles says what it says. As I > said, there's surely been battles about where to put every comma, and > the version that is there now represents some form of consensus about > how the article should start. > > You can't go in and change that, and not expect to be reverted. > > --Oskar > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
