Oskar Sigvardsson 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
Indeed. We have [[WP:BRD]] for that, and I don't see much evidence of D in this case. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
