It isn't quite WMF's fault that other countries don't release their pictures
under free licenses (or like the US into the public domain). You could just
as well say that because enwp uses English sources it is biased towards the
US\UK and therefore is not NPOV. No encyclopedia in the world is NPOV going
by the same standards because they don't really go to North Korea and take
photos there nor do they get a North Korean writer to write some parts of
articles regarding NK. NPOV is the sublime ideal we should all strive for
but in order to further one ideal, you sometimes have to give up another and
in this case when you look at both sides I think it's a no-brainer.
Yonatan
On 2/9/07, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux(a)free.fr> wrote:
Geni said:
>/ To me, these include, among others://
/>/ * military operations and hardware
/
US military photos and trade fairs. Also various
open days. About the
only think you won't get is NK stuff such as Ch'onma-ho
So, only US hardware and activities. So much for NPOV. (There are tons of
interesting things
that you won't see unless you're in operations. Trade fairs will show only
small arms.)
/ * spacecraft
/
NASA for a lot of stuff and countries tend to put
a lot of their space
hardware on display
NASA => only US
You've therefore made the point that our current policies favor the
broadcasting of the
activities of the US government. So much for NPOV. :-)
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