SlimVirgin wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>> wrote: > > >> * That's exactly right. All this group would be looking for are good-faith >> > *>* efforts to edit in accordance with the NPOV policy. It's not an attempt to > *>* control content, but behaviour. Perhaps we should change the title to > *>* reflect that. > * > > *stevertigo* wrote: > > >> You lost me. If you say its all about the content, I'd be on board. You say >> its about "behaviour[-alism]," and I go now elsewhere to let you rethink the >> idea entirely. >> > > > Controlling content = "this article should or should not say X" > > Controlling behaviour = "this editor should or should not do X" > > In that sense, this proposal is about behaviour, because it is about > good-faith editing (behaviour) and not the result of it (content). > > However, the whole content v. behaviour thing is something of a false > distinction. ArbCom prides itself on not controlling content, > but it does it all the time indirectly by controlling who can edit, > ruling on what counts as a reliable source, etc. > > This is a proposal to enforce behaviour that upholds our own core > content policy, and there's no problem with that tension. > In fact, it's quite strange that none of our core content policies are > currently enforced, except for BLPs. > > Sarah Oh, I wouldn't count on BLPs being enforced.
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