On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Durova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lilliputian nationalist form a network and come over to Wikipedia, turning > the article about Blefuscu into a travesty. A lone Blefuscu native sees > the > imbalance and tries to address it, engaging in mediation and eventually > arbitration. Afterward the Lilliputians successfully get the Blefuscuan > topic banned because the Blefuscuan isn't adding to the imbalance of > negative information about his own country. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm afraid the proposal will work to the advantage of one side of the > dispute, to the detriment of the other. One side is generally well > educated and familiar with looking at both sides of an issue; the other > is not, with no meaningful access to either education or sophisticated > cultural memes. > Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how does it help our discussion to to say either of these things? -SV _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
