On 03/06/2008, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
David Gerard schreef:
Most of those have been copyedited, at least. The EB 1911 writing style isn't at all clear on a web page, even letting alone its frequent glaring lack of NPOV.
I came across this wonderfull edit summary today: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hendrik_Goltzius&curid=840184&...
One wonders how the EB editors would reply.
Presumably they don't claim to be neutral - if they do, they are simply delusional. That paragraph was critical appraisal, it wasn't neutral reporting, at least not in the sense we mean.