Charles Matthews wrote:
The only thing that stands out is that we should send for a fashion victim, right now, to fix up [[haute couture]]. Might be a little harder than finding a Linux wizard ...
Thank goodness for that. In a Wikipedia with otherwise really very good and *useful* computer articles (i.e., I use it as my standard reference in real life), [[Linux]] is a POV-pushing dog's breakfast of advocacy. This happens with a lot of open source-related articles, because too many contributors really do not understand NPOV in any context whatsoever, only advocacy. I've tried fixing it in the past, but the effort of holding back the tide made me wish I was working on more peacable areas of the wiki, like Israel-Palestine topics.
It's the same problem [[George W. Bush]] has. Some topics have *entirely too much* interest for editors, to the detriment of readers.
- d.
On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:09 PM, David Gerard wrote:
It's the same problem [[George W. Bush]] has. Some topics have *entirely too much* interest for editors, to the detriment of readers.
For added fun, see [[2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities]], and its associated sub-articles, which provide a pleasant tonic to anyone who complains that we might give certain areas of coverage the short shrift. In fact, I bet that's where 24,000 of our words about Encyclopedia got to - they were busy being used to get those articles up to 60,000.
And if anyone wants to add those dispute tags that the interested editors keep removing back while you're looking at the articles, well, I'd surely not stop you.
-Snowspinner