[WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie

[Mark Nilrad]

Bill,
It's not any good to make blanket statements about Wikipedia based on one article in your experience. This is what a lot of journalists do when writing about Wikipedia, and then proceed to lambast/praise/poo-poo or whatever based on that single experience. That is what it looks to me like you are doing.

I'm sure there are a good number of article that have "been maligned over and over again". But then, I am certain there are literally millions of articles that are great, and that have no problem with them (in that regard, anyway). As people have said, articles like the Cabal one are in a minority.

Noble Story




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From: Bill Carter <billdeancarter at yahoo.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:24:34 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie

FT2: You must be a part of Wikipedia's propaganda ministry. I offer you facts about one striking instance in which journalist Alan Cabal has been maligned over and over again. Who knows how many other
Wikipedia articles are being treated in such a way, and only if people
come forward will we get a good idea.



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From: FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:16:31 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie

This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes by
others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't
"A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It
then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor
even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric
device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a
mistake to be retracted when spotted.

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