On 13 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote:
Does this mean
the NPOV is violated if a meta tag is inserted
to allow parents to filter out detailed specific information
and blueprints on bomb building?
YES! By establishing a standard of what information may be desired to be
filtered by parents and which information may not, we are grossly
violating NPOV. What if a hypothetical parent wanted their children to be
isolated from religious ideas?
Then they could do so easily by filtering out pages with the words
God/Demon/Christ/occult/belief. However this will also get pages which
aren't about religous ideas filtered.
Labelling isn't to let people filter more, it's to let people filter less
by letting them use more advanced methods (Labelling as opposed to
keyword search).
In the long term we want some generalized categorization system, but in
the short term we should move towards that goal by providing
categorization where it is most needed.
Imran
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