Alphax writes:
Hello! Politician discussing what gory details should be in the article about another politician! Conflict of interest, anyone?
Now that really does annoy me. Whatever happened to "This user is a Wikipedian and seeks to eschew other ideologies while building an encyclopedia"? I don't suppose the three featured articles I wrote about politicians, which have never been impugned for their neutrality, occurred to you?
If it is held that no-one who is actively involved in politics should be contributing to articles about other people actively involved in politics, then that would would really be the end of my contribution and of many others, of the whole basis of WP:AGF, and of the founding principle of Wikipedia that everyone is welcome to come in and leave their own biases at the door.
I would reconsider that statement, if I were you.
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:44:17 -0500, "david@election.demon.co.uk" david@election.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hello! Politician discussing what gory details should be in the article about another politician! Conflict of interest, anyone?
Now that really does annoy me. Whatever happened to "This user is a Wikipedian and seeks to eschew other ideologies while building an encyclopedia"?
Yes, you've said that before. But the fact remains that you are a party political activist editing articles on politicians, and frequently in a way which causes conflict with other editors, and this is not the first time the criticism has been levelled at you either, so perhaps you do have biases and are unable to discern them in your own writing (which would only be human, after all).
Guy (JzG)