|From: The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com>
|Sender: wikipedia-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org
|Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org
|Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:07:53 -0500
|
|On 12/12/02 6:55 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
|
|> On 12/12/02 5:36 PM, "Robert Kaiser" <rkaiser1(a)worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
|>
|>> "Rosa Williams" <aprilrosanina(a)charter.net> writes:
|>>> In deference to SLR, who explained that for historical reasons many feel
|>> the
|>>> term "anti-Zionism" is threatening, I've personally
substituted "anti
|>>> Israeli government policy" or "anti Israeli imperialism" in
my own
|>> writings.
|>>> Yeah, it's longer, but it leads to far less confusion as to what
exactly
|>> I'm
|>>> disagreeing with. :)
|>>
|> <snip discussion of zionism, semitism, etc.>
|>
|> Then Cunctator snorted:
|>
|>> This does not belong on the list.
|>
|> ----
|>
|> Well, technically it should go on wikiEN-l but it would have been less
|> abrasive just to ignore it. People haven't really gotten used to the idea of
|> discussing English Wikipedia on wikiEN-l and global issues on this list.
|
|It doesn't belong on wikien-l either. It's discussion that belongs on either
|talk pages or meta.
|
The Cunctator, who does not like the idea of list moderation, has just
demonstrated what a good moderator would do. If every discussion like
this (true meaning of anti-semitism) was tagged with a dry comment,
"This discussion belongs on a talk page or meta", pretty soon we would
see less and less of this sort of thing and the moderator would have
improved the content of the list and the content of Wikipedia by her
action, all without stepping on anyone's rights or stifling any
discussion.
Maybe we should transform The Cunctator into The Moderator.
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88