Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Separating content from presentation

[Hook]

Bob Dodd spake thusly :
>
> And then, as I said, there will be very well written, well researched
> but anonomous article submitted. Imagine a dissident Islamic cleric
> writing about Islam in Iran, or a Falungong member in China, or a white
> farmer in Zimbabwe. What will we do with their entries?

Because there are so many subjects which are considered contentious by
*some* group somewhere, I suspect that anonymous submissions may be fairly
regular. Your examples are good ones, and illustrate that we can't
reasonably discard articles just because the author won't come forward and
name him/her self.  The criterion has to be the quality of the submission,
always.

As a general point, I'm drawn towards the idea of a 'free' encyclopedia, in
part as an opportunity for people who don't have easy access to Britannica
or the like.  However, I feel strongly that the quality of articles is
important to maintain the projects credibility.  And for that there has to
be a degree of editorship, and the right (and responsibility) not to accept
just anything that comes along.  Someone who doesn't believe in the
holacaust will be emotionally difficult to deal with for a lot of people,
but if  an author can produce a researched article (reasonably) free of
retoric, then surely it ought to be accepted as a viewpoint, and balanced by
other more conventional articles.

Hook