Through ignorance, through weakness, through its own deliberate fault...? ;)
Interestingly enough, though, Blacketer wasn't the one who removed the "consistency" comment he was the one who added it in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Cameron&diff=242271726&a... d=242266826
The DM allege that he "tried to remove a reference to the Tories having a 'consistent' lead in the polls." In actual fact, he merely replaced it with a more relevant one and you'll never guess which news outlet it was that he cited.
Make what you will of Blacketer's account juggling, but to my mind there isn't even a case for arguing non-neutral editing here. To borrow WP:COI, I can hardly see that advancing outside interests was more important than advancing the aims of Wikipedia in this case.
But hey, caveat lector, right..?
H
On 08 June 2009 at 13:41, FT2 [ft2.wiki@gmail.com] wrote:
To be fair on that last point, they hear we "resolve disputes" and they know there are hundreds of disputes a week. They just don't have the awareness AC doesn't solve 99% of them :)
FT2
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Harry Willis wrote:
To borrow WP:COI, I can hardly see that advancing outside interests was more important than advancing the aims of Wikipedia in this case.
This isn't very related to your issue, but if WP:COI says this (and it seems to) it's very easy to interpret as "forget about most of the BLP policy". For instance, the BLP policy says that we should take into consideration how our articles affect the subjects' lives. Our subjects' lives are outside interests and therefore should be ignored according to COI.
And I'm not just nitpicking over wording, either--this exact issue (though maybe not the specific line from COI) is the main cause of all the backlash against attempts to protect living people. Users are told time and time again that the only thing to consider in writing on Wikipedia is how it advances the aims of Wikipedia, and that it is never appropriate to take into consideration any other factor. And some of them start to believe it.