On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/6/1 Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com:
Well, there is a line between "systemic bias" and "source bias". If secondary, reliable sources don't consider X important enough to write much about, we follow their lead, and do not write much. If they don't think X is important enough to write about at all, we follow their lead, and do not write anything at all. That's not our decision, and introducing anything beyond what sources do is introducing -our own- bias, regardless of how noble of motives such bias may be founded upon.
All towns are "notable."
- d.
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While that's been an oft-repeated canard in the past, it is by no means a given. Nor, even if true, does it mean the best organizational structure is to have a separate one-sentence article for every tiny dot on the map, when lists could handle it far better.