[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Wed Mar 12 22:29:38 UTC 2008


David Goodman writes:

>  But advertising does not invalidate the quality of a source--it  
> lowers
> it slightly, depending on its nature. advertising from google in WP
> will not ruin it altogether. It will decrease its value somewhat, as
> would any other stain on its possible objectivity.
>
> Thus, local newspapers are not reliable necessarily for covering all
> the embarrassing events of their community.  And so for WP we do not
> altogether trust them for local events where they may not be
> objective.

Can you remind me again what sources we *do* trust altogether for  
their objectivity?


--Mike







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