On 01/02/2008, u/n - adrianm adrianm@octa4.net.au wrote:
Why I think that Wikipedia is imperfect, and why the need for a place like Wikipedia Review:
An unfortunate opening - I almost didn't bother reading your email since it's so obviously attacking a strawman. Nobody with any understanding of what Wikipedia is has ever claimed it was perfect.
The hope behind Wikipedia is that having such a large number of contributors means we can't have any serious bias since not all contributors will have the same bias so you won't get a consensus on an article until it is completely neutral. Obviously that doesn't work perfectly (problems occur most obviously in articles written by a small group of people, or when one group of people are much more vocal than their opposition), but it works pretty well and most of our articles are pretty neutral.
As for the need of WR, I can only say: Sofixit!