Any unbashed viewpoint hurts our credibility.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:12:04 -0700, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Today's featured article is a delightful read, but strikes me as terribly one-sided. The adjectives applied to Yeltsin in this conflict are consistently negative, and the advjectives applied to his opponents are consistently positive. The reality is much more complex.
It is unusual for a featured article to be so problematic.
And the bulk of the content is from - you guessed it - 172! This is the hallmark of his style; while there are usually no gross misrepresentations of fact, the wording is so relentlessly slanted it would take a week to clean up, at the end of which he would just revert it all in one fell swoop. It's completely exasperating; I finally stopped looking at anything he touches, scrubbed it all out of my watchlist, and regained Wikipedia-nirvana.
Even so, I still worry that the unabashed socialist viewpoint will hurt WP's credibility as an impartial recorder.
Stan
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