Fred Bauder wrote:
I have looked at a couple of articles, [[Anwar
Ibrahim]] and [[Education in
Malaysia]]. I see a few sharp words but nothing like the protracted deadlock
that can result from contested points of view in certain instances on
Wikipedia. You all seem polite and restrained.
Thanks. I'm not too concerned about those any more, as those are now
past (I think). I'm very concerned with the state of [[Bumiputra]] and
[[Malaysian New Economic Policy]], though. In [[Bumiputra]], Jpatokal
has tried to NPOV it, but has been accused of strawmanning by Malbear
when making his argument for the rephrasing of certain sentences.
There's not much trouble on [[Malaysian New Economic Policy]] yet, but
the article is 100% biased in its tone of writing, even more so despite
an excellent addition of examples and facts by an anon (which only
worsened the NPOV situation by describing the situation as robbery),
despite getting all the facts right (something Malbear seems to harp on;
apparently in his view if the article gets all the facts right, it
doesn't matter how biased the tone of writing is, as can be seen from
the debate on [[Talk:Anwar Ibrahim]]). I'd expect something to happen
soon, though, since Jpatokal and I have agreed that much of the material
at [[Bumiputra]] should actually be merged with [[Malaysian New Economic
Policy]], which would mean introducing material of dubious NPOV quality
into an article already determinedly POV.
Fred
John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])