He touches on some issues. We could probably quite easily counter them with examples of right wing or conservative material that gets POV bombed.
Some of the bio's he is stretching the issue to be sure; perhaps more analysis of events in these peoples life could be recorded (and certainly those articles seem to require some reorganisation), but they don't really whitewash anything. They are perhaps trying to be *neutral* and maybe going a little too far. (Is this guy of a strong political persuasion, I get that impression...)
The only really major problem he raises is Ismus, that needs a look at.
Tom
On 1 September 2011 18:51, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 August 2011 12:11, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Here is an interesting article by David Swindle of Front Page, about Wikipedia's problems with biographies of living persons. Swindle sees it
in
terms of a persistent left wing bias.
...
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/
For completeness, here is part 2 of David Swindle's series:
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/01/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-ii-...
Here he focuses on what he thinks are "three unwritten rules that pervade the treatment of most leftists on Wikipedia."
He summarises them as follows
[1] Quote feeble critics only so they can be rebutted. [2] Give the Benefit of the Doubt to the Jew-Haters. [3] Leave out the Embarrassing ‘Personal Life’ details.
As examples he cites the biographies of Al Gore, Al Sharpton and Morris Dees, The first two will need no introduction, but the latter of these was the relatively less well known founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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