[Web4lib] WIKIPEDIA continues to be politically correct, as amended daily.

[Chris Tinney]

WIKIPEDIA continues to be politically correct,
as amended daily.

Sorry, you are completely wrong.  
The historical perspective or context
is my mention of the creation of the
Constitution of the United States; 
of which you are well aware, was
made for change, (through an
amendment process), as required by
future generations.  "The United States
Constitution is the oldest enduring written 
  national Constitution."   So Wikipedia, which
is amended daily, should have a similar future.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/constitution/facts.html

amendment: The act of changing for the better; 
improvement.  A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript.

Fred Beisser <fredbeisser at mesanetworks.net> wrote:
  Source?

Kathleen Stipek wrote:
      This is ahistorical.  The Founders were, by and large, either aristocrats or men of property for whom governance  was to be confined to the right sort of people, i.e., aristocrats and men of property.  They had no more idea that the mass of farmhands, working men, and other males in the general public would ever be permitted to govern than that women and slaves would ever be freed from legal and political restrictions on participation in society.  
   
    Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District 
  401 East University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601
  352-334-3931 (voice) 352-334-3948 (fax)
  Non, merci
     --Cyrano de Bergerac


    
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  From: Chris Tinney [mailto:vctinney at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:09 PM
To: kgs at bluehighways.com; web4lib at webjunction.org; publib at webjunction.org; Kathleen Stipek
Subject: WIKIPEDIA is now politically correct


The "political correctness" phrase was a subtle statement
by the writer that compared the rise of Wikipedia and its
compilation by the "unwashed" educated masses, with
the rise of the American democratic process; the creation
of the Constitution of the United States, wherein a society
was ordered by former "unwashed" people, who had the
audacity to believe that the common man could self-govern.
UNWASHED: ignorant, plebeian

  Respectfully yours,

  Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America,
Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/

"K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote: 
  > In other words, I'm not sure how much validity this study has for
> Wikipedia versions in other languages.
> 
> Bernie Sloan

The "political correctness" phrase seems to be poor labeling, but I would
cautiously agree that Wikipedia has much broader acceptance. 

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