On 5/6/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/6/06, A jokestress@gmail.com wrote:
- Are "criticism" sections valid in general, or do they just become a
repository for quibbles and an amplifier of relatively insignificant hatecruft about a person?
They are not only valid, in many cases they are necessary. Wikipedia is not Wikinfo, writing from a "sympathetic point of view". I hope that nobody would argue that we should have an article about [[Ann Coulter]], [[Michael Moore]], [[Uri Geller]], or [[Alexander Lukashenko]] that does not include criticism. Important public and political figures in particular may affect, through their action or inaction, an entire society. To not describe the reaction in encyclopedic terms, or worse, to only describe one side of the reaction, completely undermines the purpose of an encyclopedia.
Criticism should certainly be part of an article, but I've always found it poor writing style to put it in its own section.
Anthony