you make a good point here, Jason.
Pat
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:11:46AM -0400, Padreger@aol.com wrote:
This is very true! Maybe the fact that there ARE two sides to the
story,
neither completely right or wrong, is the point ?
It is admittedly very difficult to write a completely unbiased paragraph
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the initial article-- [sorry,
I'm
not up to snuff on semantics here with wikipedia]-- reached by an
outsider
doing a casual search could be a statement that the conflict exists
between
whom, where, when...etc. ...and certain factual info re treaties, etc.
then
a link to the individual sides' position?
I think the problem with the idea of a page for each position is that it will inevitably lead people into thinking they have a free rein to ignore NPOV, simply because the one page is "balanced" by the other - most likely ending up in a spiral of increasing bias. (Well, the other page says this horribly biased thing, I'm justified in saying something non-neutral on this page).
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