On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:11:41 +0100, wikien-l-Tony Sidaway 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.

And (at least when I went there) it plays annoying audio ads when you go there, placed "below the fold" so that you can't even quickly find the "stop" button for them... makes one appreciate all the more how Wikipedia is one of the few major sites that doesn't have any ads (well, except the periodic fundraising pitches, but so far those don't blast audio at you). Hopefully the form of hell that marketing people will go to after they die will include an eternity of ads blasting at them from all directions.

I won't pretend to agree with everything he says--it is not helpful to compare Michael Moore to Ann Coulter or Keith Olbermann to Glenn Beck.

Why not? Of course they're not all identical other than their political views... no two people are. However, they all have in common being outspoken commentators for political causes, so the differing treatment of the outspoken leftists vs. outspoken rightists is relevant.