On 15/02/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At present,
the wikipedia is far from neutral here; for example, the
Muhammad in Encyclopedia Britannica has only a single veiled image in
18 pages, whereas the wikipedia has 4, and most of them are unveiled.
I don't think you can find many articles on Muhammad with lots of
images in; or nobody has so far.
"Neutral" does not mean "what everybody else does",
Actually yes, it really does. The policy states:
"All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written
from a neutral point of view (NPOV), representing fairly and, as much
as possible, without bias all significant views (that have been
published by reliable sources)."
So in order to keep these images in the article we need to show that
their presence represents ALL SIGNIFICANT VIEWS without bias. You can
bias an article very well adding by adding more of anything than other
sources show; as you well know, and that seems to be what is happening
here.
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.