Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-04-11/Recent research

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A fascinating survey of recent research. Well done! Powers ^T 15:05, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me that the debate chronicled at Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy/Arguments/Image-Display was quite reasonable by wikipedia talk page standards. It also seems to me that the true core goal of wikipedia is to provide a highly informative and useful encyclopedia, and that it is not possible to do that without including some relevant material in articles that touch on topics like religion, race, politics, economic and social systems, wars and other conflicts (both historical and ongoing), and human sexuality, not to mention controversial articlles like global warming and the Creation–evolution controversy that is going to be highly offensive to some readers. The key question has always been whether or not the potentially offensive material was relevant and informative in the context of the article in question. Rusty Cashman (talk) 20:24, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]