[Wikipedia-l] Re: Lir yet again

Mon Nov 11 08:44:15 UTC 2002

On Sunday 10 November 2002 05:01 pm, wikipedia-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> On 10-11-2002, Daniel Mayer wrote thusly :
> > Lir just made a Wikipedians page titled "Anti-American_users" which has
> > (as the title would indicate) caused a storm of unproductive flames.
> > Pages like this shouldn't exist because of the divisiveness they cause.
> > They do not further our goal of creating an encyclopedia and only lead to
> > mean spiritedness. I vote for removal. See the talk page for more.
> >
> > 
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedians/Anti-American_users
>
> I agree with you and vote for removal too.
>
> Is it at all possible to work out policies to discourage political POV
> and propaganda that is totally against the principal goals of Wikipedia ?
> I'd rather refrain from any hard security measures.
>
> Regards,
> Kpjas.

We usually move hopelessly POV stuff to Meta. I vote for moving ALL the 
Wikipedia/foo pages there (even the geographic based categories). IMO the 
Wikiepdians page at en.wiki should be a alphabetic list with a link to the 
the chronological "history" list that states when each user joined. 

We needn't set-up different factions of users by having other categories. If 
somebody is interested then they can visit the POV-friendly Meta to find out 
more by following /one/ vanilla link from the Wikipedians page. I still 
wouldn't enjoy seeing the Anti-American page but I really couldn't complain 
much if it is in Meta.wiki  -  which is already filled with POV material. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)