[WikiEN-l] POV fork anyone? (coca cola)

ScottL scott at mu.org
Sun Jul 23 21:30:33 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/23/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, since the [[Criticism of ***]] appear to be accepted, there
>> are now dozens of articles, springing up in all domains:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islam
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Pope_John_Paul_II
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Family_Guy
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_software_engineering
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Soka_Gakkai
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_debt
> 
> I'm stunned. I've started [[Wikipedia:List of POV forks]] to deal with
> this. This is a really serious violation of NPOV, far more so than
> quibbles over whether individual sentences of individual articles
> contain the correct tone or not.
> 
> Steve

I was about to do this but one look at this query:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%22Criticism+of%22&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org&as_rights=&safe=images

and I realized it would take a very long time.  Looks like there may be 
hundreds of these.

SKL



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