It is officially addressed through the dispute resolution process. While the
arbitration committee does not address content, this sort of "content" is
probably not content that we would fail to address. As matters get more
subtle, the problem becomes more difficult to address as we are not propared
to rule on close questions of opinion or fact. Neutral point is view is
expected to result in both views being fairly presented.
Fred
From: John Robinson <john(a)freeq.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 00:22:10 -0500
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia works
If you were to add
a sentence to the page saying "Jack London was also the author of 'Lassie
Come-Home,'" I would probably spot it and remove it within a day or two. You
could, of course, put it back. Then I would probably remove it again and
message you saying "No, it's a great book but it was written by Eric Knight,
not Jack London. We could use an article on Eric Knight, by the way." And
that would probably be the end of it.
That's often (increasingly, lately) not the end of it, and this is a
major problem with Wikipedia which I seldom see officially addressed
(although it's widely griped about).
Anyone have some sort of solution?
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