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Author Topic:   Should wikipedia remove pictures of Muhammad
bluegenes
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Message 14 of 38 (454163)
02-05-2008 6:56 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by CK
02-05-2008 3:29 PM


CK writes:
The main argument is that it upsets Muslims and causes offense - do you consider that a "good argument?
Most certainly not. It's an example of the typical hypocrisy that we see in all Abrahamic religions, and even considering the question illustrates the special privileges granted to religions.
The Islamic scriptures are highly offensive to non-Muslims. Allah has drawn a veil over our eyes so that we don't believe, and then proceeds to blame us by condemning us to eternal torture. What an asshole of a god! But we don't try to ban or censor those idiotic scriptures.
But it is the nature of such religions to operate censorship, just as it is in their nature to indoctrinate children, and they require these methods to survive.
If Muslims don't want to be offended, they can stop believing in such mumbo jumbo, and start using their brains for thinking instead.
Wiki also reproduces the Danish Muhammed cartoons, here

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bluegenes
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Message 21 of 38 (454250)
02-06-2008 5:19 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by skepticfaith
02-06-2008 1:18 AM


Re: Wikeipidia is a joke
skeptic writes:
That is essentially wikipedia - why should it show up on top for anything even when there is much more quality material for given website.
That's to do with google, not with wiki. One of the criteria that pushes a page up in any given search is the number of incoming links to that page from pages that also contain the search words used.
Although that's a clever way of approximating the relevancy and particularly the importance of the page, it's impossible for google to devise a system that sorts out actual quality.
When we link to wiki from this thread, using the words that are the title of the particular wiki page in our posts, we help push the page up the results, and as people are doing this all over the internet, the high search engine results just reflect wiki's popularity, for better or worse.
So no, wiki does not cheat on search engines. It does not need to.
There's something to be said for looking further down the list when making google searches, and I keep it on a default of 50 results per page because of this.

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