On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Sage Ross wrote: > This is very different from Brian Peppers. The rich body of research > on these tests (too much for anyone to easily digest) actually points > to the need for a Wikipedia-style summary of the relevant data. It's > one thing to say that the general public shouldn't be exposed to that > data arbitrarily; it's quite another to say that it should be kept > from people who are searching for it (which is how people end up > reading the Wikipedia article on it).
That doesn't seem to be a relevant difference. In both cases, the argument is being made that putting it on Wikipedia isn't causing any harm because there are other places on the Internet where it can be found. That argument stands or fails in both cases. It clearly fails for Peppers. > There is no question that the information about the tests is important > and valuable knowledge (whether the tests themselves are clinically > useful is another matter). In contrast to Brian Peppers, here the > argument is that the info should be removed *because* it's important > and valuable. In both cases, the argument is being made that harm will be caused by people seeing it. (In other words, that it is harmful because it is valuable to the people who use Wikipedia.) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
