Well, that seems like a good way to compromise. It
doesn't soft-pedal
anything, but it gets us out of the business of making a potentially
controversial judgment.
Jimbo, I know you like compromise, but I generally prefer consistency. If we
do this in this article, we should use a phrase such as "is universally
regarded as" in any sentence that falls into the same class, i.e. makes a value
statement about a person that the majority sees as negative, but which is
nevertheless not disputed. Is this a policy you would want?
I don't know must about Wagner's anti-semitism
(though I don't doubt
it), so I don't know if anyone disputes it. Would Wagner have disputed
it?
Hard to tell. Perhaps he would have called himself "anti-Jewish". I have not
read any of the countless books about Wagner (I just got involved after the
edit-war with Clutch broke out), but the summaries I have found of even the
more revisionist books of which there are plenty state something like "Wagner
was an anti-Semite, there can be no doubt about it. But .."
Do you want sysop access, Erik? You should have it.
"I'm just not ready for that kind of commitment" ;-). I think it's good
for
some of the more involved people to keep an eye on how it looks from down
here instead of up there, if you know what I mean.
Regards,
Erik
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