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

[Birgitte SB]

--- Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 
> 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


Consumer Reports?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports

Birgitte SB

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