joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
On Dec 7, 2007 8:08 PM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
We've got a neutral news outlet that we could go to; Wikinews.
You *are* joking, right? The same Wikinews that is on Wikipedia's front page, largely developed by en-WP editors, and gets special linking rights in WP articles unlike any other news medium? Whether or not the writers of Wikinews are neutral is immaterial; I believe the conflict of interest would actually make things worse.
I doubt a page on Wikipedia itself would be better in this regard, though I myself would be fine with that. My point is simply that it would be really helpful to have some kind of reasonably neutral summary that we can point to by way of rebuttal or at least to provide a little balance for one-sided views like this.
Now, what might make sense is for someone to talk to a Wikinewsie who is very much not a Wikipedian (and I have a few in mind) and talk to them about doing an essentially investigative article. However, that would take time and would further continue this drama which really should just die.
Wishing that a drama would just die won't actually make it go away.