(I'm moving responses that seem to pertain more to the content of the article to wikien-l, and responses that seem to pertain more to global issues of NPOV and policy to wikipedia-l.)
Stevertigo wrote:
Who is Mother Teresa? Is she on her way to being a saint, or a contemporary person, for whom an encyclopedia article can write up all kinds of dirt on her.
I think this is a false dichotomy. We can "write up all kinds of dirt" on Catholic Saints.
But I don't really like that phrasing, since 'dirt' implies a certain kind of evaluation that should be avoided when contentious. We should report on Mother Theresa and the reasons given by the Church leaders that she is being beatified and may be canonized. But we should also report on secular (or Church!) critiques.
But we should do all of those things in a way that both a supporter and critic of Mother Theresa would agree are fair.
A philosopher might imagine a supporter of Mother Theresa who claims that any mention or discussion of critics or criticism is inherently unfair. But I don't think such a person actually edits Wikipedia.
--Jimbo