[WikiEN-l] Some corporate bias to watch out for

[Fastfission]

It's cute that they announced it, though. If only all POV-pushers were
so convenient. It's also somewhat cute that they "joined the authoring
ranks of Wikipedia" -- as if it takes active membership and not just
clicking on the "Login" button.

FF

On 11/10/05, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just got this from my Google alert on Wikipedia:
> http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2145845/tax-group-say-wikipedia
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> "The Professional Contractors Group (PCG), an organisation for
> freelance and temporary contract workers in the UK, has joined the
> authoring ranks of Wikipedia, the open source encyclopaedia.
>
> John Kell, political researcher for the PCG, has written three
> entries, two on British taxation law, with a decidedly pro-PCG bias."
>
> These articles are being written by [[User:John Kell]]. I recently
> placed {{NPOV}} templates on the articles [[IR35]] and [[S660A]] for
> reasons that should become obvious in the context of their content,
> and [[Professional Contractors Group]] as well. This seems to be an
> attempt by a political lobby group to use Wikipedia as a soapbox. I'm
> not intimately familiar with the political situation surrounding these
> statutes, so I would ask that other users try to help me in making the
> articles more neutral.
>
> Ryan
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