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

[David Goodman]

We don't trust anything altogether, in my opinion we trust them to
different degrees, ranging from almost zero to almost 100. the
discussion on this is where one would expect to find it, at WT:RS.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>  David Goodman writes:
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>  >  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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-- 
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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