Hmm nice that he's not entirely relying on the Siegenthaler incident and has quoted something beyond 2007. But his reliance on a 2009 Daily Mail story about 20,000 editors vetting changes via flagged revisions http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoints... Does leave me wondering how much he really understands the pedia, and whether perhaps he gives preferential treatment to sources he agrees with over those he doesn't. Core to his critique is the idea that highly active editors who do most edits must perforce be leftwing, which rather misses the point that the fixers of typos and reverters of vandalism are not necessarily the editors who add all the content.
I for one have no problem with the idea that Conservapedia will often be to the right of us, or Liberapedia to the left http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Now a thoughtful critique that compared us to both of those and also to reality would be interesting, but a Conservative criticising us for being less Conservative than Conservapedia.... It would be worrying if we didn't seem relatively Liberal compared to them.
As for the Che Guevara article, as well as detailing his marital infidelities it describes him as "feared for his brutality and ruthlessness" and details why. It also recounts an incident of him killing someone in cold blood. Economic incompetence "Whatever the merits or demerits of Guevara’s economic principles, his programs were unsuccessful.[130]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara#cite_note-Kellner63-129 Guevara's program of "moral incentives" for workers caused a rapid drop in productivity and a rapid rise in absenteeism". Lastly an overly confrontational attitude that failed to engage the Bolivians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara Multiple separate and sourced criticisms that to my mind make this far more balanced than David Swindle claims.
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On 23 August 2011 12:11, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Here is an interesting article by David Swindle of Front Page, about Wikipedia's problems with biographies of living persons. Swindle sees it in terms of a persistent left wing bias.
I won't pretend to agree with everything he says--it is not helpful to compare Michael Moore to Ann Coulter or Keith Olbermann to Glenn Beck. The gist of the article has merit, though. I think he makes some reasonable points about the biographies of Noam Chomsky and that deceased poster child for youth rebellion, Che Guevara.
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