On 11/6/02 11:04 AM, "Toby Bartels" <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> wrote:
Ed Poor wrote:
jumping to conclusions, but in
the right direction.
I don't want the Wikipedia to exclude people
with views I despise. I just
don't want them to rip pages out of the books or put salt in the sugar
dispenser.
That sounds like vandalism; I'm on record as in favour of banning vandals.
But the discussion that sparked the analogy was all of this stuff about
expert approved subsets/forks/overlays/etc.
What's nice about Wikipedia is that noone *can* rip pages out of the books.
They can put salt in the sugar dispenser.