Gallagher Mark George wrote:
c) On Wikipedia, America is King. The rest of the
world finds itself having to explain why such-and-such article should be written from a
NPOV rather than an American one. This is not deliberate, there is no organised campaign
by Americans to corrupt the encyclopaedia, it's entirely unintentional ... and
that's even worse.
It may be which articles I read/edit, but I tend to see more of an
Anglocentric POV rather than an US-centric one, which is perhaps
unsurprising since more English-speakers than non-English-speakers edit
the English Wikipedia. In particular, having way more detail on the UK
than there should be in a general article is nearly as common as having
way more detail on the US than there should be (though not *quite* as
common). This is particularly true in anything related to legal
topics---there's typically piles of text on the UK and the US legal
systems, sometimes with a separate section about how Canada has its own
take on the topic, followed by a token nod that other legal systems also
exist and might do things differently.
-Mark