I think this occurs because the bias in the article is subtle and not readily apparent to a casual reader. It looks good on its face and very detailed.
Fred
From: actionforum@comcast.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:13:28 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] POV featured articles?
I noticed that an article I considered POV just became a featured article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Soviet_Union
I've marked it NPOV, and have made several improvements, including a couple I made before it achieved featured article status.
How do articles become featured articles? I've read Wikipedia:Featured articles, and it talks about standards but not how the actual decision about the status is made. I looked at the nomination page, and there were only 5 supporting votes, and zero opposing votes, before mine which I have just added after the fact.
I am not criticising those reviewers, they may not be sensitive to some of the selection biases that can occur within articles or may have been unfamiliar with the subject.
I am however surprised that an article can become featured without far wider review that hopefully would catch incompleteness or biases such as this. I had seen contributions to featured articles cited as feathers in ones cap, so I thought the review must have been high. Is there a minimum number of supporting votes that are required? -- Silverback _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l