Steve Bennett wrote:
On 05/05/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
That was an extraordinary case, such a thing is not likely to happen again within some time now. Wikipedia's systemic bias is not exposed in such a candid way very often. We can not use it as a benchmark.
Sorry, but what did this example have to do with Wikipedia's *systemic* bias? Our systemic bias stems from the fact that most of our contributors are young American men interested in technology and the internet. What does that have to do with one person apparently soliciting "votes" from Republican voters for an AfD?
The systemic bias, which stems from the fact that most contributors are living in anglophone countries, where islamist terrorist attacks occured, which resulted in widespread anti-islam bias, is IMHO bad enough. You don't believe me? Well, read it up on [[Islamophobia]] and it's talk page.
The JP cartoon poll results have been no surprise to me at all, nor have been the hundreds of cartoon deletions ever since.
I can even agree to the many bans, which have applied on editors, which continuously removed the cartoons without inserting a link to them, on the basis of vandalism. The cartoons, even if they are offensive, are indeed highly relevant material, and removing them without inserting a link can be considered a deliberate attempt to reduce the quality of the encyclopedia.
But I strongly disagree, that replacing the cartoons with a link to them, is vandalism, because the motivation of those, who do so, is not to reduce the quality. Instead those who do so (incl. myself) do in fact want to increase the quality of the article, because they think, that an article on a controvery needs to have editors on both sides of this controversy. The current state of this article and the editors backing it, already drove away resp. banned countless editors, who could have added valuable information regarding the muslim POV on this issue.
As if common anti-islam bias among the editors weren't enough, even administrators, who outed themselves as free speech extremists on the Image-Display talk page, which has been created for this content dispute, abuse their administrator privilege by simply blocking editors they disagree with.