On 3/14/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
No Polish nationalists editing articles on Poland. No strong religious believers (or strong atheists) editing articles on religion. Etc.
All do have some degree of merit---I would be more skeptical of an article on Christianity written by the Pope than I would be of one written by someone relatively neutral. But are we actually going to have policies like that?
Eh? I would be skeptical of an article on Christianity that had never been touched by a Christian. I would be skeptical of an article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that had never been touched by an Israeli (or a Palestinian) for that matter.
The point is, you're saying "written" and I'm saying "touched". We generally don't have articles "written" by one person - lots of people stick a hand in and shape the article a bit. Particularly obnoxious editors may have a large influence, but generally the overall result takes into account the different influences fairly well.
Steve